• KüNO Summer school on Marine benthic habitats, Lauenburg, Germany, 14-25 September 2014
• Organising theWorkshop BSW “Baltic Sea benthic fauna communities” Warnemünde, Germany, May 27-28, 2014
• IMBER Open Science Conference 2014, Bergen, Norway, 23-27 June 2014
• 9th GEOSTAT Summer School, Bergen, Norway, 15-21 June 2014
• ICES Benthos Ecology Working Group (BEWG) Meeting 2014, Dinard, France, 28 April – 02 May 2014
• The Baltic Sea Science Congress 2013, Klaipeda, Lithuania, 26-30 August 2013
• Modellierung-Workshop (BfN-Cluster 4 und 6) , Hamburg, Germany, 22 August 2013
• Kickoff-Meeting FONA“Küstenmeerforschung in Nord- und Ostsee”, KlimaCampus, Hamburg, 29-30 April 2013
• Workshop „Arbeitstreffens Biologie-Sedimentologie“(BfN-Cluster 4 und 6), BSH, Hamburg, Germany, 19 April 2013
• ICES Benthos Ecology Working Group (BEWG) Meeting 2012, Sandgerdi, Iceland, 7–11 May 2012
• Numerous FEMA meetings and workshops, Marine Biology Services for “Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link”, Benthic Fauna Baseline Investigations and Environmental Impact Assessment. Denmark and Germany, Jan 2010-Dec 2011
• The Baltic Sea Science Congress, St. Petersburg, Russia, 22 - 26 August, 2011
• ICES Benthos Ecology Working Group (BEWG) Meeting 2011, Fort Pierce, Florida, USA, 2–6 May 2011
• Mini-symposium "Marines Monitoring 2010 Schleiswig-Holstein" in State Agency for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas (LLUR), Kiel, Germany, 29 March 2011
• Workshop "Beprobungsstrategien zur Erfassung von Umwelteinflüssen auf das Makrozoobenthos von Übergangs- und Küstengewässern", Hamburg, Germany, 2-3 Dezember 2010
• Training workshop on Multivariate Analysis in Ecology and Environmental Science for Complex Designs, using PERMANOVA+ for PRIMER v6. Plymouth, UK, 21-25 June 2010
• METIER Final Conference "Climate - Water - Biodiversity - Land Use: Young Scientists Tackling Complex Environmental Challenges" Brussels, Belgium, 4 – 6 November 2009 (Scholarship)
• ICES Benthos Ecology Working Group (BEWG) Meeting 2010, 19–23 April 2010, Edgewater, USA (WebEx)
• The Baltic Sea Science Congress, Tallinn, Estonia, 17 - 21 August , 2009 (Scholarship)
• ASLO Meeting 2009, Nice, France, 25-30 January, 2009 (Scholarship)
• Communicating Science Workshop, IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany, 24-26 November 2008
• Workshop "GIS in Engineering Research: development and application experience", Pakhra, Russia, 19-25 Nov 2007
• The XVII International Conference on Marine Geology - November 12-16, 2007
• The Baltic Sea Science Congress, Rostock, Germany 19-23 March 2007
• Workshop on Land Ocean Interactions in the Russian Arctic, Moscow, Russia, 2004