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2024-2027 Appointed ICIMOD Senior Fellow - Advisor on Climate and Innovations, International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal
2022 - 2024 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board PlanA.Earth GmbH, Berlin, Germany
since 2021 Power of Attorney and Partner Bauhaus Earth gGmbH (non-profit), Berlin, Germany
2018-2024 ICIMOD Senior Fellow - Advisor on Climate and Innovations, International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal
2019-2024 Guest Professor at Hamburg Media School, Hamburg, Germany
2016-2021 Director of Studies/Founding Dean (Sustainability & Environmental Management) and Board Member Berlin School of Sustainable Futures, University of Applied Sciences (in formation)
2015 - 2020 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