Curriculum Vitae

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Contact

1200 E California Blvd, MC 252-21

Pasadena, CA 91125

tobias.koehne@dlr.de

Employment

11/2024 – today	German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
	Staff Researcher

Studies

10/2018 – 10/2024	California Institute of Technology, United States
	Ph. D. Geophysics
	Graduate Student Researcher
08/2016 – 12/2018	The University of Texas at Austin, United States
	M. Sc. Aerospace Engineering, 3.93 GPA
	Graduate Research Assistant at the Center for Space Research
10/2012 – 02/2016	Technische Universität München, Germany
	B. Sc. Mechanical Engineering, passed with distinction
	Overall grade 1.5 (top 5% of the class)
04/2008 – 09/2010	FernUniversität Hagen via the Young Business School Heidelberg, Germany
	B. Sc. Business Informatics, passed exams in 7 courses

Teaching Experience

01–03/2023, 04–06/2020	Teaching Assistant at Caltech:
	Tectonic Geodesy
01–03/2021	Teaching Assistant at Caltech:
	Introduction to Earth and Planetary Sciences: Geophysics
10/2013 – 03/2015	Teaching Assistant at the TUM:
	Higher Mathematics for Mechanical Engineering

Internships

10/2015 – 02/2016	Industrial internship with Airbus Defence & Space GmbH, Mechanical Design Office
	Ottobrunn, Germany
08–09/2012	Industrial internship with Premium Aerotec GmbH
	Augsburg, Germany

08/2012 – today	Member of the Service Civil International (German Branch) e.V.
09/2020 – 9/2024	Mentor in the buddy program for first-year Geophysics students
10/2019 – 9/2024	Elected officer of the Caltech Alpine Club
06/2022 – 12/2023	Member of the Unlearning Racism in Geosciences Pod
	in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech
06/2020 – 06/2022	Member of the Graduate Student Council
	Elected student representative for the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
	Co-Chair of the student council 02/2021 - 06/2022
10/2012 – 09/2015	Member of the student council
	Elected student representative within the Department of Mechanical Engineering,
	Head of the student newspaper
09/2011 – 07/2012	Volunteer Service in Togo, West Africa with the SCI Germany:
	Teacher for Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry at the C.E.G. de Gadjagan

Publications

See my ORCID or Google Scholar profiles.