| since
2021 |
Partner and Advisor/Power of Attorney
Bauhaus Earth gGmbH, Berlin, Germany |
| since
2018 |
Independent member of the Board of
Governors and Program Committee Member, International
Center for Integrated Mountain Development
(ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal |
| since
2016 |
Director of Studies/Founding Dean
(Sustainability & Environmental
Management) and
Board Member Berlin School of
Sustainable Futures, University of Applied
Sciences (in formation) |
| since
2015 |
Chair of Scientific Advisory Board,
Centre for
Climate Change and Development, Islamabad,
Pakistan |
| since
2014 |
Deputy Chair Research Domain II at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research: Climate
Resilience |
| 2012 |
Winner of Clean
Tech Media Award: for the Climate
Media Factory Project |
2011
|
Founder and Chief Executive
Director (until 2020) of Climate Media Factory UG
|
| since
2008 |
Head of Research Area: Climate
Change & Development, (renamed to
Urban Transformations since 2018) |
since
2010
|
Extraordinary professor at University
of Potsdam (Climate Change and
Sustainability), Institute
of Environmental Science & Geography
|
| 2010
|
appointed
full professorship at Griffith
University/Brisbane and coincidentally
Deputy Director of the National
Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility
of Australia (declined). |
2008-2010
|
Lecturer at Humboldt
University Berlin, Dept.
of Geography
|
since
2004
|
Senior Researcher Potsdam Institute for Climate
Impact Research. PI/project leader of
several international joint projects |
| 2008-2009/2015-2016
|
Visiting
Professor at Mahidol University,
Bangkok/Thailand, Institute for Resource Studies
|
| 2007/2008 |
Expert
for the Council of Europe,
Committee for Sustainable Development in order
to prepare a report on Adopting a strategy
to reduce vulnerability and adapt to climate
change. Consultant for German
Technical Cooperation (GIZ) developing a
proofing strategy making ODA investments climate
resilient.
|
2006
|
The European Union INTERREG
Programme awarded the Amber Tree Award to the
ASTRA (Developing Policies & Adaptation
Strategies to Climate Change in the Baltic Sea
Region) European joint project for its
foresighted vision.
|
| 2001 - 2003 |
Senior
Scientist Justus-Liebig University of
Giessen, Inst. Theoretical Physics (WG
Bunde). Research Analyst for the German Advisory
Council on Global Change to the Federal
Government (WBGU). |
| 1998 -2001 |
Post-Doc
and project coordinator DIWA project at the Institute
for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine
Environment (Math. Modelling, WG Ebenhöh)
|
1992 - 1998
|
Research
Fellow at the Potsdam Institute for Climate
Impact Research. Dissertation in
Theoretical Physics University of Potsdam, Institute
of Physics. |
| 1986 - 1992 |
Studies
of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Oldenburg. |
| 1984 - 1989 |
Administrative
Officer, University of Oldenburg/Germany |
| 1976 - 1984 |
Police
Officer, State Police Lower Saxony/Germany |
