Founder and Managing Director of the German market research agency solrico. She is responsible for the international newsletter of the web portal www.solarthermalworld.org, reporting exclusively about solar heat market and technology trends globally. She also created the first online World Map of SHIP suppliers (SHIP = Solar Heat for Industrial Processes) see www.solar-payback.com/suppliers and carries out annual surveys among the around 70 companies listed on the world map. She has been author of the SHC chapter of the annual Global Status Report on Renewables published by REN21 between 2016 and 2022. Solrico's focus in terms of market research is on solar district heating and solar process heating.