Prof. Dr. Andreas Roloff

'I like to be here.' Professor Andreas Roloff has been head of the chair since 1.1.1994 until 31.8.2022 and works with his team all over the spectrum of forest and urban tree topics (tree biology), botany of woods, successional development and parks. His favourite scientific interest is to understand trees in their complete broad life cycle and adpatation mechanisms, not only parts of it and some special elements.
That covers the teaching, too. For this the direct structural connection to Tharandt Botanic Garden/Saxony State Arboretum is important and helpful, as he has been director of this institution as well.
Since 1.9.2022 he is senior professor for research on tree biology at the institute.
His personal main research areas are urban trees, drought stress and protection of ancient trees: there are so many questions and problems, and special know-how and need for action is essential for these subjects. Beside presentations on scientific meetings the chair is organizer of the annual Dresden Urban Tree Conference (Dresdner StadtBaumtage) every year in March, together with Dresden green space management.
The more we know about the character of many native and foreign woody species, the better we can manage, maintain, protect and use them. E.g., climate change has the consequence of modified strategies of tree maintenance and species selection, with strong importance to consider the tree's adaptation potential and plasticity.
Future with trees.

© Roloff

Senior Chair of Tree Biology

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