The work, in which Roloff showed how European beeches can make use of the airspace, met with a great response from the forestry experts - not least against the background of the debates about the so-called forest decline.
At the end of the year, Roloff was awarded the Thurn and Taxis Prize for Forest Science in 1986 for his research achievements.
He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Silviculture at the University of Göttingen until 1990, which also included teaching responsibility for forest vegetation science.
This also included the scientific management of the Forest Botanical Garden at the University of Göttingen, with Andreas Bärtels supporting him as technical director.
In the early years of his academic career, Roloff brought more attention to the field of morphology and dendrology within forest botany and derived important findings for practical applications.
His years of research in this area led to the standard work Baumkronen - Understanding and Practical Meaning of a Complex Natural Phenomenon, published in 2001 .
[6] For this purpose, Roloff has also successfully spun threads into practice and developed street tree concepts with several cities (including Jena, Hamburg, Erfurt).
[6] Roloff is also involved in the academic self-administration of the TU Dresden, was dean of studies for Forest Sciences from 1994 to 2003 and has been chairman of the examination board since 2018.
In addition to those already mentioned, he wrote together with Andreas Bärtels the flora of the woody plants, which were primarily intended for forestry and horticultural practice (first time in 1996 [4] ).
Since 1997, Roloff has also been the publisher, together with Horst Weisgerber, Ulla M. Lang and Bernd Stimm, of the encyclopedia of woody plants and their extracts in book form, founded by Peter Schütt and distributed worldwide .
Atelier am Forstgarten, Tharandt 1996 New edition as a three-volume work by the TU Dresden publishing house: together with Klaus Klugmann: Causes and dynamics of oak branch cracks .