10/2011 – present Scientific Director
RIFS – Research Institute for Sustainability | at the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences
(until 2022: IASS – Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V.) Potsdam, Germany
10/2013 – present Honorary Professor, Institute for Environmental Sciences and Geography at the University of Potsdam
10/2009 – 9/2010 Interim Professor (Vertretungsprofessor) for Meteorology at the Institute for Physics of the Atmosphere, University of Mainz (on leave from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry)
1/2006 – 10/2011 Research Group Leader at Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
8/2000 – 12/2005 Junior Research Group Leader (Nachwuchsgruppenleiter) at Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
10/1996 - 7/2000 Postdoctoral Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
- Science Platform Sustainability 2030 (Wissenschaftsplattform Nachhaltigkeit 2030, wpn2030), co-chair (since Feb. 2021) and consortium coordinator (since March 2023)
- German Council for Sustainable Development (Rat für Nachhaltige Entwicklung, RNE), council member (since Jan. 2023)
- acatech – German National Academy of Science and Engineering, member (since Dec. 2024)
- German Climate Consortium (Deutsches Klima Konsortium, DKK), General Assembly member (since 2018) and member of the board of directors (since April 2021)
- Sustainable Development Solutions Network, German Chapter (SDSN Germany), steering committee member (since Jan. 2016)
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