Research focus
- Geoecology
- Land use systems
- Remote Sensing
- Central Asia
Scientific career
- since 05/2019
Chair of Geoecology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg - 10/2017 – 04/2019
Substitute Professorship Geoecology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg - 08/2017 – 09/2017
Academic Senior Councillor on a temporary basis Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg - 07/2017
Habiliatation on “Remote sensing and geoanalysis to Support sustainable land and water use in the Aral Sea Basin” - 08/2011 – 08/2017
Junior Professor for Geographic Remote Sensing, Julius-Maximilians-UniversityWürzburg - 01/2007 – 07/2011
Temporary senior academic councillor in the Elite Network Bavaria, Master’s programme “Global Change Ecology”, University of Bayreuth, employed at the Remote Sensing Chair of the Department of Geography, University of Würzburg - 06 / 2002-12 / 2006
Research assisntent at the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) of DLR in Oberpfaffenhofen, Remote Sensing Working Group at the Institute of Geography, University of Würzburg - 12/2006
PhD (Dr. rer. nat) within the framework of the project “Economic and Ecological Restructuring of Land and Water Use in the Khorezm Region (Uzbekistan): A Pilot Project in Development Research” - 04/1995 – 02/2002
Geography degree programme at the University of Mainz, specialisation: geoecology - 04/1995 – 06/1997
Mathematics degree programme, finished after completion of the intermediate diploma
