Dr. Bigalke is an individual member of the German Meteorological Society and of several VDI (German Association of Engineers) boards: 

• Advisory council of Department II "Environmental Meteorology"
• Committee for air quality, Department II "Environmental Meteorology"
• Chairman of the VDI work 3783/16 "Prognostic mesoscale non-hydrostatic wind field models - Procedures for applications according to TA Luft"
• Member of the VDI work group 3783/7 "Prognostic mesoscale non-hydrostatic wind field models"
• Member of the VDI work group 3783/10 "Diagnostic microscale wind field models"
• Member of the VDI work group 3787/8 "Synthetic meteorological data"