Assignments and Research Activities:

• Deputy head of the Institute for Plant Protection in Horticulture and Forests
• Coordination of the evaluation procedure of plant protection products and the EU listing procedure
• Coordination of the biocidal active substances and biocidal products proceedings
• Scientific evaluation of the efficacy of plant protection in forest, rodenticides and repellents within the framework of the national authorization of plant protection products
• Forest Entomology
• Forest Protection

Boards and memberships:

• German Phytomedical Society(DPG)
• DVFFA & DPG Section Forest Protection
• German Society for General and Applied Entomology (DGaaE)
• Professional Group “Forest Protection”
• Expert Committee on Rodenticide Resistence (FARR)
• Task force of the senate of the Federal Research Institutes “climate adaptation”

Publications in the Julius Kühn-Institut