till 1998: webmaster of the Societas Internationalis Odonatologica S.I.O.; editorial board of the
journals ODONATOLOGICA and NOTULAE ODONATOLOGICAE, and co-editor of the
international S.I.O. newsletter SELYSIA.
1999-2000: co-editor of the international palaeoentomological newsletter MEGANEURA
(edited by X. Martínez-Delclòs / Barcelona and G. Bechly / Stuttgart).
2002-2016: ombudsman of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for safeguarding good scientific practice at the Natural History Museum in Stuttgart
(according §8 of the DFG guidelines).
2003-2016: editorial board of the journal PALAEODIVERSITY (formerly Stuttgarter Beiträge zur
Naturkunde Serie B).
since 2006: editorial board of the journal ARCHAEOPTERYX.
2011-2016: handling editor for amber and palaeoentomology of the journal PALAEODIVERSITY.
since 2018: editorial board of the ID journal BIO-Complexity.
