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)
- since 2020 Dean of the Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, University of Göttingen
- 2020 to 2021 Member of the senate, University of Göttingen
- since 2016 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 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