Assignments and Research Activities:

• Head of the “Forest Quarantine” - Lab (i.a. living culture collection for Bursaphelenchus sp.)
• Performing reference functions within the framework of the National Reference Laboratory in the diagnostics of quarantine pests
• Research on pests and harmful organisms related to forest ecosystems
• Application of various molecular tools to identify these organisms
• Development of diagnostic methods to identify organisms directly from woody material
• Member of Panel on Quarantine Pests for Forestry der European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO)
• Organismic (microbial) diversity in wood and deadwood

Membership:

• German Mycological Society (DGfM)

Scientific CV:

• Since 2016 Head of Laboratory at Julius Kuehn Institute (JKI)
• 2014 – 2016 PostDoc Dept. of Soil Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Halle (Saale)
• 2009 – 2014 PhD-student at the Dept. of Soil Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research. Thesis: "Microbial diversity and community structure in deadwood of Fagus sylvatica L. and Picea abies (L.) H. Karst"
• 2001 – 2008 Diploma courses in Forest Sciences at TU Dresden and Czech University of Agriculture Prague. Thesis: "Identification of wood decaying fungi in sycamore trees using molecular techniques" (TU Dresden)

Publications ResearchGate

Publications in the Julius Kühn-Institut