Career


1983-1989

Studies in Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at Wageningen Agricultural University, the Netherlands


1989-1993

PhD student at Department of Soil Science and Geology, Wageningen Agricultural University, the Netherlands


1993-1996

Postdoctoral researcher at the ‘International Institute of Tropical Forestry, US Forest Service, San Juan, PR, USA; based at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica


1996-1997

Postdoctoral researcher at the ‘Complex Systems Research Centrum’, University of New Hampshire, Durham NH, USA


Since 1997

Professor of Ecopedology of the Tropics and Subtropics, University of Göttingen, Germany


Since 1999

Member of the Centre of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Use (CBL), University o Göttingen, Germany