Professional employment and academic education:

Since 2010     Professor at the University of Hamburg (W3) / departments of geosciences and macroeconomics; Head of the Research Unit ‘Sustainability & Global Change’ at the Center for Earth System Research & Sustainability

2007 - 2010    Department head (jointly with O. Edenhofer) on ‘Sustainable Solutions’ at PIK (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research e.V.)

2003 - 2007     Co-Lead of a Junior Research Group by the VolkswagenFoundation at PIK

1999 - 2003     PostDoc at PIK

1998 - 1999    PostDoc at UC Berkeley (in environmental physics) & freelancer (in environmental management) at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

1996 - 1998     Senior Scientist and C1 (quasi Assistant Prof.) at University of Munich

1996,  1993     Dissertation and diploma thesis at the University of Munich

1986 - 1993     Study of physics at University of Kiel, ETZ Zurich, University of Munich

 

Honours, distinctions and awards, scholarships, medals:

1998 - 1999     Feodor Lynen-Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation

1996,  1993     Dissertation with ‘summa cum laude’, diploma ‘with distinction’

1993 - 1996     Scholarship by the Max Planck Society

1986 - 1993     Scholarship by the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation)

 

Supervisions:

Since 2010      3 officially attributed Ph.D. supervisions started

Since 1995     Co-supervision of 7 further Ph.D. theses and 5 diploma theses (1 contributed to a WE-Heraeus-Prize)

 

Selected community services:

Since 2011      Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change (www.wegcenter.at ) at the University of Graz, Austria

Since 2011      Member of the CliSAP (climate cluster of excellence at the KlimaCampus Hamburg; http://www.klimacampus.de/ ) Scientific Steering Committee.

Since 2010      Lead Author for Chapter 2 on ‘Integrated Risk and Uncertainty Assessment of Climate Change Response Policies’, IPCC-WGIII, Fifth Assessment Report

Since 2010      Editorial Board Member of ‘Earth System Dynamics’

          2009      Coordinator Germany in an EIT(European Institute of Innovation & Technolo-gy)-KIC-proposal on climate, granted in December 2009 (since 2010 serving as EIT-representative for the University of Hamburg)

2005 - 2009     Maximum term elected president for EGU-ERE (European Geoscience Union – Energy, Resources and the Environment) – now vice president