Archaeobotanist, studied biology and pre- and protohistory in Frankfurt/Main; doctoral thesis on ancient landuse and economy of the Earliest Neolithic Bandkeramik culture, University of Leiden/NL; particular interests in investigating the development of agricultural systems and former diet and its interdependency with social developments in Central Europe, prioritising the Neolithic until Roman prehistoric periods; determinations of botanical macroremains including wood; concept development and managing of the archaeobotanical database program ArboDat. Leader of the archaeobotanical department of the State Office for Cultural Heritage Preservation Hesse as well as teaching archaeobotany at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz/Mayence (Germany).

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Academic Institution: https://lfd.hessen.de/hessenarch%C3%A4ologie/arch%C3%A4ologische-denkmalpflege/arch%C3%A4obotanik