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