Head of the Department of Landscape Planning and Environment

Managing Director of the Institute of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning (ILaUP)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Since 2006

Professorial appointment at TU Berlin

2003 – 2006

Associate Lecturer at TU Dresden (Institute for Landscape Architecture) and Philipps University of Marburg (Department of Nature Conservation)

2003 – 2006

Project Manager Urban Ecology at the Leibniz Institute for Ecological Spatial Development (IÖR) in Dresden

1999 – 2002

Employee at B.A.U.M. Consult GmbH Munich

1990-1998

Freelance work in various planning offices

EDUCATION

1998

Doctorate (Dr. agr.), dissertation title ‘Preconditions for successful nature conservation – Individual and societal conditions of environmentally sound behaviour, their significance for nature conservation and the enforceability of its objectives’

1990

Diploma, study of ‘Landscape Conservation / Landscape Ecology’ at TU Munich

Further trainings:

Banker (1997-1980), specialized journalist (1998), mediator (2002)

MEMBERSHIPS AND FUNCTIONS

• Federal Association for Vocational Nature Conservation (Bundesverband Beruflicher Naturschutz  - BBN)
• Federation of German Landscape Architects (Bund deutscher Landschaftsarchitekten - BDLA)
• Corresponding Member of the Academy for Spatial Research and Planning (Akademie für Raumforschung und Landesplanung - ARL)
• EIA Association (UVP-Gesellschaft e.V.)
• Nature Conservation Advisory Board at the Supreme Nature Conservation Authority of the State of Brandenburg (2010 – 2017)
• Nature Conservation Advisory Board at the Supreme Nature Conservation Authority of the State of Berlin (since 2017)
• Evaluation committee for the evaluation of German national parks (speaker, together with Prof. L. Ellenberg, HU Berlin) (2009 – 2013)
• External consulting expert on the evaluation of Austria's national parks (2014 – 2015)
• External consulting expert on the intermediate evaluation of German national parks (2015 – 2018)
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Park Saxon Switzerland (since 2018)
• Natural Capital Germany - TEEB DE: Coordinating author of the chapter on implementation and tools for the report ‘Urban Ecosystem Services - Protecting Health and Improving Quality of Life’

RESEARCH PROJECTS (from previous employments)

• At IÖR and at B.A.U.M. Consult GmbH (2001 - 2006)
• Strategic Environmental Assessment for Regional Planning - Development of a Transnational Assessment and Procedure Concept for Saxony, Poland and the Czech Republic (2005-2006, Interreg III A)
• Sustainability Barometer on Area’: Regional key indicators of sustainable land use for the progress reports of the National Sustainability Strategy (2004-2006, commissioned by: Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning)
• Development of an application-oriented target and indicator catalogue for environmental assessment and monitoring for the update of the regional plan for the Stuttgart region (2005-2006, commissioned by: Verband Region Stuttgart) Final report
• MILUnet - Multifunctional Intensive Land Use Network (2004-2006, Interreg III C) 
• Staff survey and mission statement process National Park and Forestry Office Saxon Switzerland (2004-2005, commissioned by: National Park and Forestry Office Sächsische Schweiz)
• Consequences of the demographic development in Saxony in the area of responsibility of the Saxon State Ministry for the Environment and Agriculture (2004, commissioned by: Saxon State Ministry for the Environment and Agriculture, represented by the Saxon State Office for the Environment and Geology)
• Land Consumption - Nature Conservation Policy Strategies, Instruments and Measures (2003 - 2004, commissioned by: Federal Agency for Nature Conservation - BfN) Final report
• Indicators for target specification and success monitoring within the framework of Local Agenda 21 (2001 - 2003, commissioned by: Federal Environment Agency - UBA) UBA-Text 67-03