 Since 2014, he has been a Full Professor for Experimental Interaction Ecology at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig and Leipzig University.Since 2015 he is Speaker of the Research Unit “Jena Experiment,” funded by the German Research Foundation.He is also Head of the iDiv Ecotron and the MyDiv experiment, as well as founding member of the "Soil BON" consortium.