Maria Herold

Maria Herold currently serves as the SMC International Sales Director EMEA and previously held the role of SMC International Sales Office Manager at SMC Diode Solutions since October 2013. In these positions, Maria provides customer support for internal inquiries, manages sales leads, and contributes to improvements in the sales administration process while compiling essential market data. Prior to this, Maria worked as a research associate at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen from October 2009 to September 2013, focusing on the effects of climate change on groundwater resources through process-oriented flow and transport modelling. Maria holds a Ph.D. in Contaminant Transport Modelling from The University of Göttingen, a Master’s degree in Applied Environmental Geoscience from the University of Tübingen, and a Bachelor’s degree in Geography and Geology from The University of Manchester.