Dr. Ricarda Gatter is head of the Project Controlling and Management Office (PCMO). Together with a team of project managers and experts for industry cooperation and business development, she supports the project management at HLRS. As such, she is involved in the management of EU-funded, as well as national projects.

Ricarda Gatter holds a PhD in Geosciences from the University of Bremen. Her work as a researcher mainly focused on the investigation of natural hazards, in particular submarine landslides, and the 3D (micro-Computed Tomography) analysis of marine sediments. Before joining HLRS, Ricarda worked as a postdoctoral researcher at MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Bremen, where she was part of a project management team that oversees and coordinates EU-funded Doctoral Networks and ESR projects.