Research fields
- Air quality in urban conglomerations, mega cities and sensitive regions of the Alps
- Climate change impact on air quality
- Assessment and evaluation of emission inventories
- Investigations on the interaction between urban conglomerations and its surroundings
- Air quality parameter for health impact assessment
Projects
- Risk Habitat Megacities – HGF Initiative on urbanization and sustainable development of mega cities using the example Santiago de Chile
- Air quality assessment studies in Mexico City in close cooperation with the “Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera” of the “Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)”
- Air quality assessment studies in Beijing in close cooperation with the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS)
- Aerosol assessment studies within the greater area of Graz/Austria introducing coupled modeling systems in close cooperation with the Institute for Internal Combustion Engines and Thermodynamics Department Emissions of the TU-Graz and the Bundesland Steiermark
- Impact of aerosols on air quality and health within the region of Augsburg in cooperation with the Institute for Epidemiology of the Research Centre for Environment and Health (GSF), Neuherberg and with the Environment Science Center (WZU) of the University of Augsburg
- Catalogue of measures for air quality and climate protection at the Marktgemeinde Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Marktgemeinde Garmisch-Partenkirchen)
- GLOWA JORDAN RIVER: An integrated approach to sustainable management of water resources under global change – Regional climate scenarios
- Environmentally Compatible Air Transport Systems (ECATS, contract ANE4-CT-2005-012284, 6th PCRDT)
Committees
- Member of the Steering Committee of the „International Conference on Harmonisation within Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling for Regulatory Purposes“, (http://www.harmo.org/)
- German delegate of the administrative board of the European COST Action ES1004: “European framework for online integrated air quality and meteorology modeling”, (http://www.cost.eu/domains_actions/essem/Actions/es1004)
- Member of "Wissenschaftliches Auswahlgremium der 8. METTOOLS der Deutschen Meteorologischen Gesellschaft (Fachausschuss Umweltmeteorologie) in Leipzig (20.-22. März 2012), (http://www.dmg-ev.de/fachausschuesse/umet/umet_index.htm)
- Member of the Environment Science Center (WZU) of the University of Augsburg, (http://www.wzu.uni-augsburg.de/en/ueber_uns)
- Member of the “Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Medizin-Meteorologischen Forschung e.V.”
- Member of the “Lokale AGENDA21 für Garmisch-Partenkirchen e.V.“, (http://www.agenda21-garmisch-partenkirchen.de/)
Publications and Presentations
