Lead author of the chapter "Linking global to regional climate change", working group 1, of the 6th assessement report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
co-chair of the EURO-CORDEX working groups on statistical downscaling and climate information distillation (2016-)
chair of the European research network VALUE (EU COST Action ES1102; 2012-2015)
member of the CORDEX-ESD executive committee, the World Climate Research Programme's initiative on statistical downscaling (2013-)
Faculty member of the graduate school "Climate Change" (2017-)
Leader of the international research project CE:LLO on modelling compound extreme events (Volkswagen Foundation; 2014-2017)
Leader of the international research project PLEIADES on downscaling of extreme precipitation (Volkswagen Foundation; 2011-2014)
Leader of the German-Russian research group EUREX on the analysis of extreme events in Northern Europe and Russia (Helmholtz Association; 2012-2015)
Co-Leader of the INKLIM project extreme events in Hesse (Hessian Environment Agency; 2009-2014)
Member of the editorial board of Nonlinear Processes in Geophyiscs (2010-2015), Theoretical and Applied Climatology (2016-2018) and Climatic Change (2016-)
Review editor of the journal Climate Research (2013-2016)
