At the university

• Foundation of master.design and head of master.design / focus on integrated design processes (idp)
• Student advisor
• Foundation and management of matLAB | material.datenbank + material.bibliothek in the Integrated Product Design program

Outside the university

• Work as a freelance designer
• Acting as a juror and reviewer

• 2010: Foundation of master.design at the HS Coburg / Head of study program
• 2002: Founding of matLAB | material.datenbank + material.bibliothek in the Integrated Product Design degree program
• since 03/2001: Appointment as Professor of Design & Construction and Materials at Coburg University of Applied Sciences
• 2000 – 2001: École Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Metz ENIM, Department of Technical Design
• 1994 – 2001: Lecturer at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar, Department of Design
• 1993 – 2001: Graduate engineer, designer for corporate product design, HYDAC Group, Sulzbach/Saar
• 1991 – 1993: Studied capital goods design,
  Staatl.
  Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart with Prof. H.E. Slany
• 1986 – 1990: Studied mechanical engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Bingen/Rh.
  (specializing in construction technology)
• 1981 – 1984: Apprenticeship as an industrial mechanic
• 1964: born in Morbach/Hunsrück