| Since 2023 | Research director of the Computational Science Hub (CSH), University of Hohenheim |
2017 - 2023
| Member of the DFG senate commission “Earth System Research“ |
| 2016 | Gips-Schüle Award “Freedom for Research” |
| 2012 - 2019 | Speaker of the DFG Research Unit (Forschergruppe) 1695 Agricultural Landscapes under Global Climate Change - Processes and Feedbacks on a Regional Scale |
| 2008 - 2011 | Speaker of the collaborative DFG project PAK 346 Structure and Functions of Agricultural Landscapes under Global Climate Change – Processes and Projections on a Regional Scale |
Since 2020,
2013 - 2016,
2002 - 2006 | Head of the Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart |
| Since 2001 | Professor of Biogeophysics, Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
2006 - Offer of a professorship of General Soil Science at University of Hamburg, Germany (declined) |
| 1993 - 2000 | Researcher and Lecturer ("Wiss. Assistent"), Dept. of Geoecology, TU Braunschweig
1994: Fritz Scheffer Award of the German Soil Science Society
1999: Habilitation degree in Geoecology and Soil Science, TU Braunschweig |
| 1992 - 1993 | Postdoc, Dept. of Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA, U.S.A. (with W.A. Jury) |
| 1988 - 1992 | Research associate, Institute of Geoecology, Technical University Carolo-Wilhelmina, Braunschweig, Germany.
1993: Ph.D. in Soil Physics (with J. Richter) |
| 1982 - 1988 | Studies in Agricultural Sciences (M.Sc. 1988), Universities of Giessen and Göttingen, Germany |
| 1980 - 1982 | Studies in Sociology (Prediploma 1982) and Philosophy, University of Marburg, Germany |
