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Academic Career Path |
since 2000 |
Professor of Plant Evolution, Head of the Department of Biodiversity, Evolution & Ecology of Plants(BEE) and Director of the Herbarium Hamburgense (HBG) in the Department of Biology at the University of Hamburg |
1994-2000 |
Professor of Botany at the Botanical Institute of the University of Cologne, Germany |
1994 |
Visiting Professor at the University of Namibia (UNAM), Department of Biology, Windhoek, Namibia |
1992 |
Habilitation in Botany, University of Hamburg |
1990-1992 |
Habilitation scholarship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) |
1986-1988 |
A. F. W. Schimper fellow of the Heinrich & Erna Walter Foundation, Stuttgart Hohenheim |
1985 |
PhD in Natural Sciences (Dr. rer. Nat.) at the University of Hamburg, Germany |
1973-1980 |
Studies of biology and diploma in biology at the University of Hamburg |
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Scientific Coordination Functions |
2001-2009 |
Chair of DIVERSITAS Germany |
2003-2010 |
Co-Chair of the BIODISCOVERY Program of DIVERSITAS (www.diversitas-international.org) |
2003-2009 |
Co-Chair of the German National Committee for Global Change Research (NKGCF) of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) |
2007-2014 |
GEOSS Principal with mandate to set up a global biodiversity monitoring system |
2010-2015 |
Member of the German UNESCO Commission |
2007-2016 |
Member of the Steering Committee of the GEOSS biodiversity monitoring network (GEO BON) |
since 2004 |
Member of the Founding Commission, founding member and corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg |
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Project Coordination |
1994-2000 |
DFG Collaborative Research Centre 389 Arid Climate, Adaptation and Cultural Innovation in Africa (ACACIA) |
2000-2010 |
BIOTA Southern Africa, BMBF joint project |
2010-2016 |
The Future Okavango (TFO), BMBF joint project in the Land Management Programme (LaMa) |
2009-2012 |
Prevention and Restoration Actions to Combat Desertification (PRACTICE), EU joint project |
since 2010 |
Coordination of the establishment of the institution and the research programme of SASSCAL (Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management) |
since 2017 |
International Scientific Advisor for the institution SASSCAL (Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management) based in Windhoek, Namibia |
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Awards |
1992 |
Helmut & Hannelore Greve Foundation Young Investigators Award |
2012 |
Elisabeth Appuhn Award of the Deutsche Bank |