• Head of the Department of Landscape Planning and Landscape Development
  
• Managing Director of the Institute of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning (ILaUP)

Born 1961 in Munich

Professional Career

• Holder of the Professorship for Landscape Planning and Landscape Development at the TU Berlin since 2006
• Lecturer at the TU Dresden (Institute for Landscape Architecture) and the Philipps-University Marburg (Department of Nature Conservation)
• Project Manager Urban Ecology at the Leibniz Institute for Ecological and Regional Development (IÖR) in Dresden (2003-2006)
• Employee at B.A.U.M. Consult GmbH Munich (1999-2002)
• Doctorate as Dr. agr. 1998
• Freelance work in various planning offices (1990-1998)
• Study of Landscape Management / Landscape Ecology at the TU Munich-Weihenstephan, Diploma 1990
• Further training: Bank clerk (1977-1980), specialized journalist (1998), mediator (2002)

Memberships / Functions

• Expert Advisory Board for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management at the Senate Department for Environment, Transport and Climate Protection of the State of Berlin
• Cross-border Scientific Advisory Board Saxon-Bohemian Switzerland
• Editorial advisory board "Naturschutz und Landschaftsplanung"
• Scientific Advisory Board "Natur und Landschaft"
• External consulting expert within the research project "Further development of quality criteria and standards for German national parks", 2019 - 2020 (BfN, Europarc Deutschland e.V.)
• Federal Association for Professional Nature Conservation (BBN)
• Association of German Landscape Architects (BDLA)
• Corresponding member of the Academy for Spatial Research and Planning (ARL)
• Member of the German UVP Society e.V.
• Nature conservation advisory board at the Supreme Nature Conservation Authority of the State of Brandenburg, 2010 - 2017 
• External advisory expert within the framework of the interim evaluation of German national parks, 2015 - 2017 (BfN, Europarc Germany e.V.)
• External consultant for the evaluation of Austrian national parks, 2014 - 2015 (Nationalparks Austria, Europarc Deutschland e.V.)
• Evaluation Committee for the voluntary evaluation of German national parks (speaker, together with Prof. L. Ellenberg, HU Berlin), 2009 - 2013 (BfN, Europarc Deutschland e.V.)
• Naturkapital Deutschland - TEEB DE: Coordinating author of the chapter on implementation and instruments for the report "Ecosystem services in the city - protecting health and improving quality of life", 2014 - 2016

Research projects from previous activities

Publications