Professor at the Institute of Soil Science and Site Ecology, Technische Universität Dresden
Acting head of CIPSEM for the Faculty of Forest, Geo Hydrosciences,
Vice-Chairman of the Curriculum Committee,
Representative of TU Dresden in the International Steering Committee of the courses

Subject area covered in the course programme:

• Land area and its productive capacity
• Soil properties and classification
• Classes and dimensions of soil degradation
• Microbial and biochemical indicators of soil degradation
• Soil restoration

• Immission stress on soils
• Microbiolal processes in agricultural and forest soils
• Nutrient cycles of arable and afforested soils
• Soil ecological effects of growing renewables

• Institute of Soil Biology at the Federal Agricultural Research Center, Braunschweig (Germany)
• Justus von Liebig University, Gießen (Germany)
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ, Eschborn, Germany), project work in Brazil
• Institute of Soil Science, University of Munich (Germany)
• Institute of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Chair of Biology and Soil Ecology, University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany)
• Institute of Soil Science and Site Ecology, TU Dresden (Germany)
• Since 1997: Managing international research projects in China (Zhejiang province), Canada (Newfoundland), Ecuador (Loja)
• Chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ, Leipzig - Halle, Germany)
• Member of the Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF, Müncheberg, Germany)
• President of the German Soil Science Society (2004 – 2007)
  
• Member of the German UNESCO-Commission (2002 - 2008)