Curriculum vitae

2021-2023 Vice-President for Academic Affairs at the University of Göttingen
since 2020 President of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ)
2017 to 2019 Member of the senate, University of Göttingen
2016 to 2024 Member of the DFG (German Science Foundation) Review Board 207
since 2013 Chairperson of the forest advisory council of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection
2012-2016, 2020-2021 and since 2024 Dean of the Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, University of Göttingen
Since 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 unit at the Bavarian Forest Institute
2003-2005 Officer at the Bavarian Ministry for Agriculture and Forestry, Research section
2001-2002 Forest district manager Forstamt Landshut, Bavarian Forest Service
2001 Postdoctoral lecture qualification (habilitation)
2001 Visiting researcher (three months) at Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA
1996-2002 Post-Doc at the Chair of Silviculture, TU München
1992-1996 Phd-student at the Chair of Silviculture, TU München
1990-1992 Paternal 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