Curriculum vitae
- since 2021 Vice-President for Academic Affairs at the University of Göttingen
- since 2020 President of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ)
- since 2020 Dean of the Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, University of Göttingen
- 2017 to 2019 Member of the senate, University of Göttingen
- since 2016 Member of the DFG (German Science Foundation) Review Board 207
- since 2013 Chairperson of the fort advisory council of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection
- 2012-2016 Dean of the Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, University of Göttingen
- Since Sept. 2007 full professor, Department of Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the temperate zones, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
- 2006 visiting researcher (two months) at the School of Forest and Ecosystem Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
- 2005-2007 head of the silvicultural uni at the Bavarian Forst Institute
- 2003-2005 officer at the Bavarian Ministry for Agriculture and Forestry, Research section
- 2001-2002 Forest district manager Forstamt Landshut, Bavaria Forest Service
- 2001 postdoctoral lecture qualification (habilitation)
- 2001 visiting researcher (three months) at Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA
- 1996-2002 senior researcher at the Chair of Silvicuture, TU München
- 1992-1996 Phd-student at the Chair of Silvicuture, TU München
- 1990-1992 paternity leave
- 1988-1990 junior forester at the forest service of Bavaria (Bayerische Staatsforstverwaltung)
- 1983-1988 studies Forest Sciences in München
- 1977-1982 secondary school Gymnasium Weilheim i. Ob.
- 1973-1977 secondary school Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium Reutlingen
- 1969-1973 primary school Rübgarten
- born in München, 1962