Leadership experience at other universities
2013-2015: Scientific Director of the M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences (Interdisciplinary Distance Learning Programme in Environmental Sciences) (with 700 students and a budget of 800.000 Euros) and interims (full) professor in Political Science, Distance Teaching University in Hagen, Germany
- Leader of the re-accreditation of the M.Sc. Environmental Sciences
- Deputy chair of the programme committee and chair of the examination board of the M.Sc. Environmental Sciences
- Team leader of 18 people (3 postdocs, 3 doctoral researchers, 1 (postdoctoral) lecturer, 3 (post-graduate) online-tutors, 6 student research assistants and 2 secretaries)
- Principal Investigator (on interims basis) at the University of Hagen of a large BMBF-funded consortium with nine partners called MINT.online to upgrade the M.Sc. Environmental Sciences with online teaching tools
Leadership Positions in Professional Associations
2000-2004 Environmental Policy and Global Change Section of the German Political Science Association
Elected member of the board
Reviewer of Grant Applications for
- European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action (05/2016)
- ERC Advanced Grants (12/2015)
- Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung (03/2014)
Member of Scientific Advisory Panels
- Mentor of the research group GLOCALPOWER funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in its programme Research for Sustainable Development (BMBF-FONA), The glocal transformation of energy systems (from 09/2017-2019)
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Panel of the Geopolitics Programme, funded by the Swedish research council MISTRA (jointly with Simon Dalby, Diana Liverman, Neil Adger, Halvard Buhaug et al). A grant sum of 5 Mio Euro (48 Mio SEK) was won by four Swedish universities (Linköping, Stockholm, Uppsala und Lund), the Stockholm Environment Institute and two international partners (E3G und adelphi) under the leadership of Prof. Björn-Ola Linner (Universität Linköping) (2017-2019)
Peer Reviewer for the following journals:
- Climate and Development
- Climatic Change
- Communication, Cooperation, Participation: Research and Practice for a Sustainable Future (e-journal)
- Environment & Planning A
- Environment and Planning C
- Environmental Politics (2017)
- Environmental Science & Policy
- Forest Policy and Economics
- Global Environmental Politics (2018)
- Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management
- Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning (JEPP)
- Local Environment
- Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft
- Nature Climate Change (2019)
- Peripherie (2018)
- Policy Sciences (2017)
- Political Geography
- Review of International Studies
- Security Dialogue (2017 and 2018)
- WIREs Climate Change (2018 and 2019)
- Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) – Discussion Paper Series
- World Development (2017)
- Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen
- Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft