CV Summary Interests Plant ecophysiology, environmental physics, application of quantitative methods in the plant and environmental sciences, software engineering Education PhD Environmental Science (Summa cum laude) - University degrees in Environmental Science and International Agronomy - Agricultural Apprenticeship Experience Conducted field experiments in plant ecophysiology, environmental physics, agronomy, forest science and limnology. Lecturing experience: Modelling Plant Systems, Quantitative Modelling (Mathematics/Statistics), Applied Mathematics, Agricultural Meteorology, Irrigation Science, Software engineering, System Analysis. Extensive experience in international collaboration (Australia, Brazil, Israel, Kenya, Palestine, Tanzania, Turky, Russia, Denmark, England, France, Netherlands, Italy). Participation in different committees of the Humboldt-University of Berlin. Member of an elected commission for restructuring its agricultural faculty. Worked in collaborative research projects on flux control in biological systems and optimizing plant production systems (SFB 137 and SFB 192 - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) Has six years experience in practical farming under temperate and semi-arid climate conditions Computer Skills Current programming languages and modelling environments. E-learning Own model developments TCorn (1997) - Model for calculating actual transpiration from uniform field crops JKEbal (= Java Kwongan Energy Balance - since 2005) - Model for calculating the energy balances of heterogeneous plant canopies (Initial version published in Physiologia Plantarum 127: 465–477). Validation studies were recently carried out in Australia and Israel (Eucalyptus wandoo und Pinus halipensis - Species-ritch heat canopy in Western-Australia - Goal: Farming system design using nature as a model). JCropTranspiration (since 2005) - Java version of TCorn (see above) - Multi-layer extension JSWEA (= Java Small Wetlands in East Africa - seit 2007) - Model under construction for characterizing human-environment interactions in small wetland systems in East-Africa