Vice president for research and innovation of the University of Tübingen (2014 – elected 2028)
SFB 1253 CAMPOS “Catchments as Reactors: Metabolism of Pollutants on the Landscape Scale” (01/2017 – 12/2021)
Advisory board member for the Austrian research initiative “Earth System Science” (ESS); Austrian Academy of Sciences and Ministry for Science, Research and Economy (2015 - )
Member and Chair of the Advisory Board of the Leibniz-Institute IGB (Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei), Berlin (2013, 2017 -2020)
Member of the senate of the German Research Foundation (DFG, 2015 - 2019)
Member of the review board 318 "Water Research" of the DFG (2012 - 2015)
Spokesperson of the Water Earth System Science Competence Cluster (2009 - 2014)
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Environmental Ministry (1998 – 2003) and Commission for Soil Protection (KBU) at the Federal EPA (UBA, 2004 -) www.umweltbundesamt.de
Member of the senate and granting committee for graduate schools of the DFG (2005 - 2011)
Member of the DFG committees for Geosciences "Senatskommission für Geowissenschaftliche Gemeinschaftsforschung" (2007 - 2011) and Water Sciences "Wasserkommission" (2011 - 2014)
Chair of the standardization committee "Leaching Tests" in the German Institute of Standardization (DIN, NAW 119-01-02-05, 2000 - 2010)
President of the Section Hydrogeology of the German Society for Geosciences (2006 - 2010) www.fh-dgg.de
Coordination of joint projects / awards / editor, e.g.:
FOR 525: "Analysis and modeling of diffusion/dispersion-limited reactions in porous media" a DFG Research Unit with 7 partners (2004 – 2011)
AquaTerra – FP6 EU Integrated Project with 45 partners (2004 – 2009)
SOWA "Integrated Soil and Water Protection" FP5 EU Accompanying Measure with 10 Partners (2003 - 2005)
GRACOS "Groundwater Risk Assessment at COntaminated Sites" FP 5 EU project with 7 partners (2000 - 2003)
Editor-in-Chief: Journal of Contaminant Hydrology (1998 - 2006; successor Stefan Haderlein) ees.elsevier.com/conhyd
Award: Heitfeld-Preis for Applied Geosciences from the Alfred-Wegener Foundation 2004