A team experienced in trees
We are a team of qualified tree specialists with extensive and varied experience in arboriculture, horticulture, landscape architecture and ecology, and forestry. For more than twenty years now we have been advising our clients on anything and everything to do with trees.
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At TreeConsult, our expert witnesses, publicly appointed and certified by the Munich and Upper Bavaria Chamber of Industry and Commerce will personally be at your service. Depending on the project at hand, we enlarge our team with experts from the wide network we have built up over time.
Expert witnesses
Erk Brudi
Expert witness in arboriculture, tree statics and tree appraisal, publicly appointed and certified by the Munich and Upper Bavaria Chamber of Industry and Commerce.
Erk ran his own tree care company for 12 years. Since 1993 he has been focusing exclusively and internationally on his roles of expert witness and lecturer. Whilst studying for a degree in urban forestry at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, he led several research projects in tree physics. The award-winning ISiMan tree software was developed by Erk.
Holds an MSc in Urban Forestry, Gardener and certified horticultural technician, and a managing partner in TreeConsult until 2024.
Andreas Detter
Expert witness in arboriculture, tree statics and tree appraisal, publicly appointed and certified by the Munich and Upper Bavaria Chamber of Industry and Commerce.
He complemented his studies in landscape conservation at the Technical University of Munich with many years of practical experience as an arborist. Today, he specialises in preparing expert reports, teaching and developing the new tree statics evaluation software Arbostat. In numerous seminars and training courses in Germany and abroad, he trains experts, students, arborists and tree inspectors. Here he can also incorporate the findings from his international research work.
Degree: Graduate engineer in landscape conservation (TU Munich/Weihenstephan). Managing partner at Brudi & Partner Treeconsult.
Frank Bischoff
Expert witness in arboriculture, tree statics and tree appraisal, publicly appointed and certified by the Munich and Upper Bavaria Chamber of Industry and Commerce.
He combines traditional forestry expertise from university and the forestry administration with his wealth of experience from more than 20 years as an expert. The focus of his work is on analysing the stability of trees, using the latest available methods as required.
Degree in forestry (LMU Munich), forestry assessor. Managing partner at Brudi & Partner Treeconsult.
Adrienne Akontz
Graduate Engineer Landscape management, Landscape architect (ByAK)
She has been working as an expert in the company for more than 10 years, specialising in the field of species protection on trees, tree value and damage assessment as well as the evaluation of ecosystem services of municipal tree populations, particularly with regard to climate change.
She played a key role in the development of the TreeAsset software from Arbosafe GmbH.
Managing partner at Brudi & Partner TreeConsult.
Lena Wilms
Expert witness in arboriculture, tree risk assessment and tree appraisal, publicly appointed and certified by the Munich and Upper Bavaria Chamber of Industry and Commerce.
Employed as an expert at Brudi & Partner since 2017, Lena is particularly involved in the visual and technical examination of trees and the preparation of expert reports.
Holds a Bachelor of Science in arboriculture, and a Master of Engineering in Urban Management and is a member of the Brudi & Partners – TreeConsult team.
Stephanie Winklmeier
Employed as an expert at Brudi & Partner since 2019, her work focuses on both visual and technical inspections, assessing the need to preserve trees in construction projects, setting up tree inventories and using tree pathogen detection dogs, e.g. for tree risk inspections on ash trees.
Holds a Bachelor of Science in Forestry and Resource Management and is a member of the Brudi & Partners – TreeConsult team.