Scopes and research activities:

• Head of working unit „mycology in viticulture“
• Investigations in biology, characterisation, epidemiology and diagnosis, with special emphasis on wood diseases in traditional and organic viticulture; development and improvement of control measures
• Fungal diseases and their impact on grafting and plant material
• Studies on possible reduction and replacement of copper containing compounds in organic viticulture
• Vineyard management with special emphasis on pruning systems and its impact on fungal ecosystems
• Evaluation of plant protection products as part of the registration procedure

Memberships:

• International Council on Grapevine Trunk Diseases (ICGTD), Regional Coordinator Europe
• COST action FA1303, “Sustainable control of grapevine trunk diseases”; member of the  managing committee Germany
• Botanical Society of Regensburg
• Landesbund für Vogelschutz, LBV
• Extraordinary Professor at faculty of Biology and Preclinical Medicine

Publications in the Julius Kühn-Institut