• Since 2023: Full Professor for Landscape Planning and Ecosystem Services at the Institute of Environmental Planning
• 2019 - 2023: Full Professor for Environmental Analysis and Planning in Metropolitan Regions, Institute of Geography, Ruhr University Bochum
• 2016 - 2019: Junior professor in Landscape Planning and Ecosystem Services, Institute of Environmental Planning, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
• 2012 - 2015: PostDoc at the Department for Environmental Policy, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Germany
• 2010 - 2016: PostDoc at the Institute of Environmental Planning, Faculty for Architecture and Landscape, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
• 2007 - 2010: External Doctoral Researcher at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institute of Environmental Planning
• 2006 - 2007: Employee (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Environmental Planning

• 2019: Successful mid-term evaluation of Junior Professorship, Institute of Environmental Planning, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
• 2018: Habilitation and Venia Legendi in ‘Landscape Planning and Ecosystem Services’, Institute of Environmental Planning, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
• 2011: PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in Environmental Planning, Institute of Environmental Planning, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
• 2006: Master in Design Studies, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, USA
• 2005: Master (Dipl.-Ing.), with distinction, in Landscape and Open Space Planning, Institute of Environmental Planning, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

• Since 2025: Coordinating Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) for the Spatial planning and connectivity assessment
• 2023: Reviewer of the Year of the journal npj Urban Sustainability
• 2022- 2024: Lead Author with FactCheck Biodiversity for a chapter on Urban Areas
• 2015 - 2019: Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) for the, Sub-Global assessment for Europe and Central Asia
• 2013: IALE-D Graduate Award for best dissertation in landscape ecology, IALE Germany
• 2012: Lennart-Bernadotte-Prize for exceptional dissertations in landscape management, Germany
• 2007 - 2010: PhD-Scholarship, German Academic Scholarship Foundation, Studienstiftung, Germany
• 2005 - 2006: Charles W. Holtzer Scholarship for Graduate Studies, Harvard University, USA
• 2005 - 2006: Postgraduate Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Services (DAAD), Germany
• 2003 - 2005: Scholarship from the Foundation of the German Economy (Stiftung der deutschen Wirtschaft), Germany

Editorial Responsibilities

• Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Landscape and Urban Planning
• Member of the Editorial Boards of  Ecosystems and People, Landscape Architecture Frontiers, Landscape Ecology, Landscape Online, One Ecosystem, PLOS Climate, und Social-Ecological Practice Research
• Editor of the Ecosystem Services Book Series

Memberships in Advisory Boards

• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Research Institute of Regional and Urban Development (ILS) in Dortmund, Germany

Memberships in Scientific Societies

• President of IALE-D, the German Section of the International Association of Landscape Ecology
• Elected Member of the Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association (ARL)

Leadership of Working Groups

• Working Group on Landscape Planning of the International Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE), ongoing
• Working Group on the Application in Planning Working Group, Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP), ongoing
• Working Group, Innovation Network Ecosystem Services (ESP-DE), ongoing
• Working Group on Ecosystem Services in Spatial Planning, Academy of Territorial development in the Leibniz Association (ARL) (2019-2022)

Membership in Working Groups

• Working Group on Ecosystem Services, German Association for Water, Wastewater and Waste (DWA)