PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Germany
* Since 2009 Research group leader at Department Computational Landscape Ecology - CLE (development of integrated models and regional scenarios)

Center for Environmental Systems Research – CESR, Kassel University, Germany
* 2006-2008 Focus-Speaker of SFB 552 STORMA
* 2004-2008 Assistant Professor (C2), member of the CESR executive board, and GRID research group leader (Global and Regional Integrated Dynamics)
* 2002-2008 Member of Executive Board and cturer for ‘International Max Planck Research School on Earth Systems Modelling’
* 2001-2003 Senior Researcher (development of land-use models)

Laboratory of Soil Science and Geology – Wageningen University, The Netherlands
* 1999-2000 Research Fellow (development of models & model coupling)

Institute of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition – Goettingen University, Germany
* 1994-1998 Postdoc (carbon and nitrogen dynamics of forest soils)
* 1990-1993 PhD-student (carbon and vegetation dynamics of tropical forests) with Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas – IVIC, Caracas, Vene-zuela
* 1989 – 1990 Research assistant (project: carbon stocks of tropical forests for ‘Enquete Komission zum Schutz der Erdathmosphäre des Deutschen Bundes-tages’)

AWARDS
* 1999-2000 EU Marie Curie Fellowship, (at Wageningen University)

EDUCATION
* 1995 PhD in Forest Science (Thesis: Soil and vegetation dynamics in tropical rain forests, Venezuela; UNI Goettingen, Germany)
* 1988 MSc in Biology (Thesis: Nitrogen nutrition of spruce seedlings; UNI Goettin-gen, Germany)