• Since 2009, Speaker of the “Environment and technology” topic within the “Humans and Technology” focus of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
• Since 2010, Elected Deputy Representative of KIT-Competence Field “Interaction of Science and Technology with Society”
• 2012-2013 Member of the strategy group on bioeconomy of the Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg
• Since 2012 Elected Deputy Representative of the competence area “Technology, Culture, and Society” of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
• Since 2020, Head of the research group “Sustainable Bioeconomy” at ITAS
• Appointed jury member at the idea competition Bioökonomie Mittelgebirge
• Member of the VDI 6311 “Bioeconomy” panel

• Sustainability monitoring terrestrial and aquatic biomass utilization
• Sustainability analysis and evaluation of the transformationof the energy system in Germany
• Land use competition and innovations for efficient land use

• Co-editor of the issue “Challenges and Perspectives of Microalgae Production” of Technikfolgenabschätzung – Theorie und Praxis 21(1) 2012, together with Clemens Posten, KIT
• Co-editor of the issue “Flächennutzungskonflikte: Ursachen, Folgen und Lösungsansätze” (Land use competition: reasons, consequences and solutions) of Technikfolgenabschätzung – Theorie und Praxis 17(2) 2008, together with Juliane Jörissen and Johannes Skarka

• Project leader of “ALG-AD – Creating value from waste nutrients by integrating algal and anaerobic digestion technology”
• Project leader of “DESIRA”
• Project leader of “FuTuReS – Fucoxanthin production from microalgae: transdisciplinary and regional scenarios”
• Project leader of “Use of geothermal energy for climate-neutral heat supply at KIT (Campus North) – inter- and transdisciplinary co-design of an implementation concept (GECKO)”
• Project leader of “ISoTEc-Land: Integrating socio-technical and environmental land-based solutions for climate change mitigation in the food and energy systems”

• Technology assessment of the topic 'renewable resources'
• Paths to an environmentally sound utilization of organic waste
• Utilization of renewable raw materials and the treatment of biogenic waste
• The concept of bio-economy – Reflections on the theoretical background, goals, visions, and expectations
• Agricultural Technologies for Developing Countries
• GREENERGY – The cultivation of fast-growing trees on grassland to increase the potential of wood as a raw material for energetic use (feasibility study)
• Energy from Grassland - a Sustainable Development?
• Short Rotation Coppice enabling Environmentally Sound Production of Wood for Energy Purposes
• BioenNW - Delivering Local Bioenergy to North-Western Europe
• Energetic Algae (EnAlgae)
• ENERGY-TRANS: Sustainability monitoring
• Analysis and scenarios for the use of microalgae as food
• Intercomparison of Approaches to Biowaste and Green Waste Utilization for Material and Energy Production with Particular Consideration of the Situation in Baden-Wuerttemberg
• Analysis and scenarios for the use of microalgae as food
• ENERGY-TRANS – Future infrastructures for meeting energy demands. Towards sustainability and social compatibility
• Photofuel
• Helmholtz-Initiative Energy System 2050 – Research Topic Life-Cycle-Oriented Sustainability Assessment of the Case Study Bioenergy
• Potential of beech-fir mixed forests to adapt from the climate change impacts in commercial forests (BuTaKli)
• ABACUS – Algae for biomass applied to the production of added value compounds
• APV-RESOLA – Innovation group Agrophotovoltaic: Contribution to a resource-efficient land use

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