Tasks and research areas

• Efficacy evaluation of insecticides and acaricides for horticulture, ornamentals and hop in he context of national registration.
• Participation in the preparation EU-monographs for active substances
• Advising the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL)
• Morphological diagnostics of harmful arthropods within the framework of the JKI's tasks as National Reference Laboratory (NRL)
• Biology and epidemiology of pest-arthropods in medicinal and aromatic plants and of soil-associated harmful arthropods
• Sustainable control-strategies for integrated and organic cltivation

Current projects

• Application procedures are currently underway for projects on peat reduction and pest forecasting

Working groups, scientific memberships

• Member of the German Scientific Society for Plant Protection and Plant Health (DPG)
• Member of German Soil Science Society (DBGes)

Publications at Researchgate

Publications in the Julius Kühn-Institut