Academic Career
| Since 04/2011 | Professor of Wood Science at Technische Universität München Head of the Research Laboratory Wood |
| 2003 - 2011 | Head of Department Wood at Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Science and Technology) |
| 1987 - 2002 | Research Associate at Empa, Department Wood; Dübendorf (Switzerland) Within this function: Post-Doc for one year (1992/93) at USDA Forest Products Laboratory in Madison (Wisconsin, USA). |
| 1984 - 1986 | Two year project for DFG (German Research Foundation): 'Aufbau einer dendrochronologischen Datenbank zur Altersbestimmung von Holzfunden auf der Iberischen Halbinsel' (Creation of a dendrochronological database for identifying discovered wood on the Iberian Peninsula) in collaboration with Departamento de Maderas del Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agrarias (INIA) and Instituto Arqueológico Alemán in Madrid (Spanien) → Graduation in 1988 at University Hamburg (Dep. Biology) |
| 1983 | Diploma (Wood Science) at University Hamburg |
Research Areas
- Interaction of polymers in wood and technical compounds
- Structure and propory analysis
- Mechanisms of adhesion on wood
- Cascading wood
- Assessment of the sustainability in technology processes
A list with publications from 2000: here