I studied biology and chemistry at the university of Giessen. From
1977-1986 I was scientific assistant at the RWTH Aachen
(University of Technology) teaching general biology for students of
medicine and investigating the life cycles of European
tettigoniids. Later I contributed to a research project on the
impact of agricultural practice on the arthropod fauna by the LÖBF
NRW. From 1990-1993 I established the entomology field course
within the diploma course in Environmental Sciences at the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. Since 1994 I carried out several projects on systematics, bioacoustics and biodiversity informatics at the Research Institute Senckenberg in
Frankfurt/Main and since 2000 at the Zoological Research Institute
and Museum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK) in Bonn. Current emphasis of my
work is on biodiversity, systematics and evolution of Orthoptera of
the Indo-malayan and Indo-australian regions.
