Tasks

• Head of the national reference laboratory for quarantine nematodes.
• Development and management of projects to control quarantine plant pest organisms on potatoes with a focus on preventing the spread of potato cyst nematodes and potato wart disease via residual soil from potato and sugar beet processing.
• Elaboration of methods for detection and identification of plant quarantine pests.
• Participation in committees of the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO) in the areas of diagnosis and quality management as well as phytosanitary measures to protect potatoes.
• Participation in expert working groups of the Federal States in the areas of nematology and quality management.
• Population biological studies to resolve the dispersal pathways of plant pest organisms.