Assignments and Research Activities:

• Principal questions of biological control
• Insect virology
• Biological and molecular characterization and classification of insect viruses
• Evaluation of the efficacy of biological control agents

Boards and memberships:

• German Scientific Society for Plant Protection and Plant Health r.S. (DPG)
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für allgemeine und angewandte Entomologie (DGaaE)
• Archivist of the Society of Invertebrate Pathology (SIP)
• Member of the scientific advisory board of the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) Switzerland
• Deutscher Hochschulverband
• Baculovirus Study Group/ICTV
• Hytrosavirus Study Group/ICTV
• Editorial Board Journal of Invertebrate Pathology
• Editorial Board Viruses
• Editorial Board des Journals für Kulturpflanzen
• Vice president of IOBC-WPRS https://www.iobc-wprs.org/

Publications in the Julius Kühn-Institut