Dean – Faculty of Design

• 2012 – 2016: Dean of the Faculty of Design, Coburg University of Applied Sciences
• since 2009: Professor of Art, Design and Building History at Coburg University of Applied Sciences
• 2006 – 2007: Three-semester substitute professor for architectural theory (and art history) at RWTH Aachen University, Department of Architecture
• 2004 – 2006: Teaching assignments at the Institute for Art and Design Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Department of Design and Art Education
• 1999 – 2003: Research assistant at the Institute for Architectural History and Theory at the University of Wuppertal, Department of Architecture
• 1999 – 2000: Lectureship in architectural history at the Kiel University of Applied Sciences, Department of Civil Engineering
• 1998 – 1999: Head of the Flensburg Court History Collection
• 1994 – 1996: Scientific traineeship at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
• 1991 – 1993: Two-year research stay in the United States at the University of Pennsylvania and at Harvard University as a scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
• 1981 – 1990: Studied art history, modern and contemporary history and modern German literary history in Bonn, Freiburg and at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (USA).
  Doctorate at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg
• 1961: born in Iserlohn / Westphalia