Funktion und Aufgaben:

• COSUMY Project: Study the lithospheric structure and seismicity in Myanmar where the Burma microplate is the hanging wall of the Burma-Andaman subduction zone, bounded in the east by the plate-bounding dextral Sagaing transform fault zone along the margin of the Asian plate. Distribution of earthquakes at the Sagaing fault system and associated transform structures in the hanging Asian plate.

• Coordination of Swath-D research within the "4D-MB Mountain Building in Four Dimensions program, Providing seismological data for the SPP 4D-MB, A dense seismological station network in the Central and Eastern Alps"

• European Plate Observing System - Sustainability Phase: Within the EPOS SP task "Test and further develop the best practices for field work and data management of temporary deployments and tailor made QC for dense temporary networks"

Karriere:

• Since 2024 Research position at the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ), Section 4.1 Lithosphere Dynamics
• Between 2020-2024 Research position at the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ), Section 2.4 Seismology
• Since 2018 Research position at the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ), Section 2.2 Geophysical Deep Sounding and Section 2.4 Seismology
• Since 2002 Research position at the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ), Section 2.4 Seismology
• 1997 - 2001 Scientific Researcher SFB-267 "Deformation Processes in the Andes" for scientific activities in South America (Argentina, Bolivia and Chile), at the Free University of Berlin

Auszeichnungen:

GFZ-Preis „Wissenschaftsmanagement 2018“ ging an Ben Heit aus der Sektion 2.2 Geophysikalische Tiefensondierung/2.4 Seismologie für seine Rolle als Koordinator des GFZ Dense Arrays SWATH D im Rahmen des SPP 4D-MB (4D-Mountain Building – SPP 2017) und des internationalen AlpArrayKonsortiums.