Since 2004
with TZI at the University of Bremen as the Technical Manager of the IP 2004-004216 wearIT@work
1999 - 2004
CEO of a group of SME (www.select-it.de)
1996 - 2000
CEO of the IT consulting firm VSS which now belongs to UNILOG S.A./Paris (www.unilog.com)
1991 - 1995
Top Manager Information Systems with the Bremer Vulkan group
1987 - 1991
Nuclear Research Centre in Karlsruhe as head of the industrial robotics department (www.fzk.de)
1976 - 1987
Essen University
1975
Bochum University
1975 graduate of structural engineering of Bochum University
1981 PhD from Essen University
1986 State doctorate at Essen University
Since 1992 Professor in structural optimization at the University Duisburg - Essen
2000 appointed as professor of honour of the Harbin/China College of Administration & Management
Author, co-author and co-publisher of five books and more than 110 papers on numeri-cal methods and computer applications, optimization, IT-security and wearable computing