Assignments and Research Activities:

• Scientific processing of medicinal and aromatic plants as part of special crops
• Evaluation of plant genetic resources for morphological, agronomical and phytopathological characters by using results of plant analyses and molecular genetic markers
• Search and assessment of elements for male sterility
• Investigation of genetic basis for inheritance of selected characters
• Variability enhancement of gene pools by purposeful transmitting of genetic factors
• Use of techniques for in vitro cultivation and amplification of valuable genotypes

Boards and memberships: 

• German national representative, European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources (ECPGR), Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Working Group
• Society of plant breeding  (GPZ), head of working group Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (17)
• Editorial Board of Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality
• Member of the German expert committee of medicinal, aromatic and flavour plants (DFA)
• Management board of Verein für Arznei- und Gewürzpflanzen (Association for medicinal and aromatic plants) SALUPLANTA e.V.
• Member of working group Cultivation of medicinal plants of Research Association of German Pharmaceutical Manufactures (FAH)
• Member of German Scientific Society for Plant Protection and Plant Health r.S. DPG (Medicinal Plants, Aromatics and Herbs, working group Phytomedicine in Horticulture) 

Teaching:

• Hochschule Geisenheim University (HGU), Professur für gartenbauliche Züchtungsforschung
• Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), Institutes für Agrar- und Ernährungswissenschaften der Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät III
• Hochschule Anhalt - Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Department of Agriculture, Ecotrophology and Landscape Development, Course Agriculture

Publications on ResearchGate

Publications in the Julius Kühn-Institut