Assignments and Research Activities:

• Head of working group „Virology/Viroids“
• Investigations on characterization, diagnostics and  disease effects of viruses of fruit crops and grapevine
• Evaluation of plant protection products
• Organization and chair of working groups and subject meetings related to plant pathology in fruit crops and viticulture

Memberships:

• International Council for the Study of Virus and other Graft Transmissible Diseases of Fruit Crops (ICVF)
• German Phytomedical Society r.s. (DPG)
• American Phytopathological Society (APS)
• German Society for Virology (GfV)
• Editorial Board European Journal of Plant Pathology
• Editorial Board Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection (JPDP)
• BMEL Delegate to EPPO Panels "Panel on Certification of Pathogen-tested Fruit Crops" und “Diagnostics in Virology and Phytoplasmology"
• International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, Study Groups Closteroviruses, Trichoviruses, Foveaviruses, Capilloviruses, Potexviruses
• Supernumerary Professor at Faculty of Biosciences of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Publications in the Julius Kühn-Institut