Personal and professional background

1975

born in Calbe

1994

Abitur

1994 - 1999

agriculture studies at Halle University and internships in Saxony-Anhalt, North Rhine-Westfalia and South Africa

1999

examination as Dipl.-Ing. Agr. with the title “Messung der Feldkapazität im Gelände -mittels Time-Domain Reflectometry (TDR)“

1999 - 2001

product manager at AgriCon company for YARA N-sensor

2002 - 2004

scientific employee and doctoral student at the Institute of Agricultural Process Engineering at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel with the focus on: site-specific crop production (soil cultivation, fertilisation, harvesting)

2004

doctorate as Dr. sc. Agr. with the topic “Innovative Echtzeitsensorik zur Bestimmung und Regelung der Produktqualität von Getreide während des Mähsdruschs“

2004 - 2005

scientific assistant at the Institute for Agricultural Process Engineering at Kiel University with focus on lectures in the basics of agricultural engineering; technology for plant production and precision farming; supervision of (doctoral) students

2005

appointment to the Faculty of Agriculture at the UAS Kiel with focus on the following lectures: agricultural and process engineering in foreign trade