Lena Simon

Head of Projects & International Affairs at GFZ

Berlin Metropolitan Area

About

Experience

  • Head of Projects & International Affairs at GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences
    Sep 2025 - Present · 10 mos

  • Leiterin Kooperationszentrum Wissenschaft - Praxis at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
    Jan 2021 - Sep 2025 · 4 yrs 9 mos

  • Scientific Coordinator at Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
    Oct 2017 - Dec 2020 · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • Managing Director JINA-CEE at Michigan State University
    Oct 2015 - Aug 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos

    Managing Director of the NSF Physics Frontier Center JINA-CEE: The Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics. Classic scientific management position.

  • Project Manager at Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed-Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI
    Jan 2015 - May 2015 · 5 mos

    Project Management of a European Union FP7 project on advanced forest fire fighting.