Research for the Environment

Deputy co-ordinator of the EC FP6 Policy support project MACIS "Policy options to minimise negative effects of climate change on biodiversity"

Head and scientific co-ordinator of the EC FP6 Integrated Project ALARM ("Assessment of LArge scale environmental Risks for biodiversity with tested Methods"; duration: until 31. March 2009); ca. 250 scientists of 68 partner organisations from 35 countries

Adjunct Professor of 'Ecology' at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg

Head and scientific co-ordinator of the EC FP5 RTD Project MACMAN ("Maculinea Butterflies of the Habitats Directive and European Red List as Indicators and Tools for Habitat Conservation and Management"); ca. 100 scientists of ca. 40 partner organisations from 18 countries

Deputy Head of Department of Community Ecology at the UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research. Head of animal ecology section

Scientific Co-ordinator of a national research project on sustainable land use for conservation of endangered species in the Central European Cultural landscape ("MOSAIK").

Adjunct Professor of 'Landscape Ecology and Agroecology' at the University of Hohenheim [Habilitation thesis (translated): 'A grid based analysis of metapopulations']

Deputy Head of Department of Conservation Biology and Natural Resources at the UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

Scientific co-ordinator of and researcher within large interdisciplinary conservation biological research projects (e.g. FIFB = Species survival in fragmented landscapes). Focus on integration of nature conservation and agriculture

Ph.D. degree in agricultural sciences; thesis: "Effects of intensification in irrigated rice production on terrestrial arthropods of Philippine Rice Terraces"

Civil service in a natural history museum (Bad Dürkheim, Germany); activities in nature conservation, entomofaunistics and curation of entomological collections)

Scientific assistant at the Agroecology Section of the Institute of Plant Production in the Tropics and Subtropics at Hohenheim University

Second long-term stay in the Philippines for continuation of field studies in the rice terraces of Ifugao Province (basic data collection for Ph.D.; DAAD scholarship)

Graduate studies in agricultural biology at Hohenheim University; master degree in agricultural biology (thesis: effects of intensification of the rice terrace system on terrestrial arthropod communities); majors in: plant protection, tropical and subtropical plant production, plant ecology and landscape planning

First long-term stay in the Philippines for field studies in the rice terraces of Ifugao Province (basic data collection for master thesis; scholarship of private foundation: "Vater-und-Sohn-Eiselen-Stiftung, Ulm, Germany")

Undergraduate studies in agricultural biology at Hohenheim University (agricultural university near Stuttgart, Southern Germany)