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