Federal Environment Agency

Presenting: Results of the Forum Fish Protection (DE)

1990 – 1995 studies: geography, biology, meteorology at Humboldt Universität Berlin.

1995 – 1998 scientific assistant, Freie Universität Berlin, DFG GTZ project, post- and late glacial landscape development Uvs Nuur (NW Mongolia)“.

1998 – 2002 scientific assistant, German Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG), BMBF project, Importance of tributaries for sediment transport of the river Elbe“. Since 2002 scientific assistant, Federal Environment Agency (Germany), section “surface waters”

Engaged in/ field of work: Implementation process of water framework directive in Germany- especially influence of hydropower and navigation on ecological status and opportunities to mitigate their effects.

Capacity: Member of LAWA expert group “Hydromorphology” and Coordinator of Forum Fish Protection and Downstream Migration (Germany)