• Born 1962 in Essen/Germany
• worked as a computer programmer and studied music in Essen; plays violin, viola and double bass
• studied forestry at Freiburg University (diploma 1989)
• 1990 - 09/2013: Scientist at the Institute for Forest Economics
• 1996: ph.d. (Dr. rer. nat.), Hamburg University; K.-Abetz-Award 1997
• since 10/2013: Deputy Director of the Thünen Institute of Forestry
  (until 30.11.2021 Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics)
• Languages: German, English, French, Portuguese, Romanian

• Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN), PAG Umsetzung Maßnahme 5 der EU-Biodiversitätsstrategie
• Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU), Projektbegleitende Arbeitsgruppe (PAG): Gläserner Forstbetrieb
• Projektbeirat "Werte der Natur" - Bewertung der Ökosystemleistungen der Österreichischen Bundesforste AG

Cooperation on Editorial Boards

• Annals of Forest Research (Editorial Board)
• Landbauforschung (Editorial Board)
• Gutachten für: Allgemeine Forst- und Jagdzeitung, Annals of Forest Research, Cities,
  Ecological Economics, Ecosystem Services, Environmental Management,
  European Journal of Forest Research, Forest Policy and Economics, Forests (MDPI),
  Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Forest Economics, Journal of Life Cycle Analysis, Journal of Mountain Science, Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism,
  Journal of Tropical Forest Science, Land (MDPI), Landbauforschung, Land Use Policy,
  Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Forstwesen,
  Small Scale Forestry, Society & Natural Resources