Lecturer for Special Assignments specializing in Animal Husbandry in the Department of Land Use and Nature Conservation, Eco-Agricultural Management program at HNE Eberswalde

Administrative Officer in the “Biodiversity” Division of the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food, Bonn, Section 514 “Agricultural Research Project Management”

Administrative Officer in the “Biodiversity” Division of the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food, Bonn, Section 514 “Agricultural Research Project Management”
Exercises and field trips

Implementation of the BLE project “Organic Poultry Production—Structure, Development, Challenges, and the Need for Policy Action” at the Department of Organic Agricultural Sciences, Division of Livestock Ethology and Animal Husbandry, at the University of Kassel;
Ph.D. thesis on the topic: “Feeding of laying hens in organic farming”

Research Assistant in the Department of Ecological Agricultural Sciences, University of Kassel; Project Manager for the “BML Pilot Project 1997–1999: Species-Appropriate and Environmentally Sustainable Poultry Farming”

Research Assistant in the Department of Ecological Agricultural Sciences, University of Kassel; contributor to the project “Hesse Model Project on Species-Appropriate Poultry Farming in Hesse”

Student Assistant in the Department of Ecological Agricultural Sciences at the University of Kassel

Participation in various professional conferences

SPSS Statistical Software - Introduction, Kassel

Graduate Course in “Methods in Farm Animal Ethology,” Hohenheim

Internship at the Institute for Animal Health, Milk Hygiene, and Food Quality, Westfalen-Lippe Chamber of Agriculture, Münster

Studied agricultural science at Georg-August University in Göttingen; received a diploma (October 1995) with a thesis titled: “Comparison of Hygiene Conditions in Pig Farms in the Districts of Aurich and Göttingen—Results of a
Befragungsaktion“

Working at my parents' business in Papetjüch, East Frisia

Agricultural Internship at Aland Abbey, East Frisia