Assignments and research activities:

• Research scientist in the department epidemiology
• Coordinator project „FLAVEPREVENT - Development and optimization of methods for monitoring of Flavescence dorée and for assessing the risks for German viticulture posed by autochthonous host plants as potential sources of inoculum in connection with the range expansion of the vector Scaphoideus titanus
• Research on epidemiology and vector transmission of grapevine yellows

Memberships:

• Member of the International Phytoplasmologist Working Group (IPWG)
• Member of the IOBC/WPRS working group ‚Integrated Protection in viticulture‘
• Member of the Editorial Board of the  Journal Phytopathogenic Mollicutes

Publications in the Julius Kühn-Institut