Curriculum vitae

2010	Prof. emeritus
2008	Award for excellent teaching from the Bavarian State Government
2007-2010	Dean of the School of Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning
1993-2009	Head of the examining board of the School of Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning
1993	Head of the Chair of Vegetation Ecology, Department for Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Weihenstephan. Center of Life and Food Sciences, Technische Universität München, Freising.
1982-1993	Professor of Geobotany at the Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture, Technische Universität München (TUM), Freising-Weihenstephan
1978-1982	Docent of Landscape Ecology at the Institute of Landscape and Plant Ecology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart
1976 - 1978	Professor at the Central Institute Of Biological Sciences, Dept. of Botany, Federal University of Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil (grant by German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD)
1975	University lecturing qualification (habilitation) for Landscape Ecology. Theme of the thesis: "Influence of site-conditions on growth of Picea abies in the Bavarian Flysch area (pre-alps).
1974-1975	Scientific Assistant at the Institute for Landscape and Plant Ecology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart
1971-1974	Scientist at the division of Vegetation Science and Landscape Management, Faculty of Forestry, University of Munich
	Habilitation grant of the German Research Foundation
1970	Research fellow at ETH Zürich, Switzerland (Institute of Geobotany)
1969	Doctorate: "Species composition and site conditions of Fraxinus - and Acer-forests in Southern Bavaria, Germany Scientific state examination for teaching at secundary schools
1964-1969	Study of Biology, Chemistry and Geography at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
Marital status	Married (since 1971), one daughter

Journals

• Proceedings of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (editor-in-chief, 1991-1999)
• Applied Vegetation Science (Co-editor von 2000-2009)

Other activities

• Secretary of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (1986 - 1990)
• Member of the board of the " Zentrums für Agrarlandschafts- und Landnutzungsforschung (ZALF) e. V., Müncheberg (1991 - 2005)
• Member of the advisory boards of nature conservation policy and for the Bavarian Nature Conservation Fund of the Bavarian government (until 2005)
• Member of the advisory board of the Bavarian Academy of Nature Conservation and Landscape Management, Laufen (until 2011)
• Member of the Councils of the International Association of Vegetation Science (until 2011)
• President of the Gesellschaft für Ökologie (2000 - 2005)
• President of the Bayerischen Botanischen Gesellschaft e.V., München (2005 - 2011)
• Founder and first president of the Alumni-Club Landschaft TUM e.V. (2007 - 2011)