Assignments and Research Activities:

• Advisory services to the National Plant Protection Service and the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (BMEL) on quarantine insect pests and new non-endemic insect pests
• Collaboration in the preparation of Pest risk assessment (PRA) of new non-native insect pests
• Collaboration in the preparation of plant health regulations and their implementation in Germany (e.g. Popillia japonica)
• Collaboration in the preparation of national surveys for quarantine insects
• Reference functions within the National Reference Laboratory related to the diagnostics of entomological quarantine pests and new non-endemic insect pests
• Research on quarantine insects and new non-endemic insect pests (e. g. Spodoptera frugiperda and Tephritidae)

Memberships:

• Member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für allgemeine und angewandte Entomologie e.V. (DGaaE)
• Member of the Deutsche Phytomedizinische Gesellschaft e.V. (DPG)
• Member of the EPPO Panel on Diagnostics in Entomology (EPPO)
• Collaboration in expert working groups on pest risk assessment (PRA) for new non-endemic insect pests (e.g. Tetranychus evansi, Saperda candida, Drosophila suzukii, Thaumatotibia leucotreta, Lycorma delicatula, Aleurotrachelus trachoides, Bactrocera latifrons, Ceratothripoides brunneus, Ceratothripoides claratris, Prodiplosis longifila) (EPPO)
• Member of IPPC expert working groups (e. g. ISPM 37 Annexes on Tephritidae) (IPPC)

Publications in the Julius Kühn-Institut