At the university

• Vice Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Chairman of the IT Steering Committee
• Program Director and Academic Advisor of the Master’s degree program in Data Science
• Head of the Laboratory for Mobile Computing and Identity Management

• 2012- 2020: head of Fraunhofer Application Center Wireless Sensor Systems
• since 2002: professor at Coburger University of Applied Sciences and Arts
• 2000 – 2001: editor-in-chief of magazine “Linux Enterprise” (published monthly by Software & Support Verlag, Frankfurt a.M., Germany)
• 1999 – 2002: Senior software architect in department “Software and System Architecture” of Siemens Corporate Technology, Munich, Germany, head of competence team “Flexible Service Networking” and co-head of business field “Mobile Computing”
• 1997 – 1999: Software engineer at German Remote Sensing Data Centre (DFD), Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) e.V., Oberpfaffenhofen in ESA projects ERS II/GOME and ENVISAT
• 1994 – 1996: junior researcher at Lehrstuhl II für Mathematik (University of Bayreuth, Germany) in federally funded project “Recognition, Description, and Visualization of molecular Structures ” (Head: Prof. Dr. A. Kerber)
• 1989 – 1994: Studies in Mathematics and Physics at University of Bayreuth, 1994 Diploma Degree, 1996 Ph.D.
  degree at Prof. Laue (Professor for computer science), University of Bayreuth, Germany