Tasks, research interests:

• Stored Product Protection (SPP) with nitrogen and carbon dioxide (controlled atmospheres)
• Insect-proof or hermetic storage and packaging
• Empty-room treatment with high temperatures
• Efficacy of low temperatures against stored product pests
• Plant extracts and semio-chemicals to attract, repell or control insects
• Biological control in SPP
• Efficacy of diatomaceous earths against stored product insects

Membership in professional bodies, activities:

• German Phytomedical Society (DPG)
• Convenor of DPG-Working Group on Stored Product Protection
• German Society for General and Applied Entomology (DGaaE)
• Co-convenor and former convenor of IOBC-WPRS Working Group Integrated Protection of Stored Products  
• Member of Permanent Committee, International Working Conference on Stored Product Protection (IWCSPP)
• Editorial board: Journal of Stored Product Research
• Reviewer for other journals such as
  
  • International Journal of Tropical Insect Science ,
  • Journal of Pest Science,
  • Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection,
  • Journal of Entomological and Acarological Research,
  • Post Harvest Biology and Technology

Publications in the Julius Kühn-Institut