*08/18/1974

Since 1 April 2022
Vice-Rector for Transfer, Innovation & Digitalisation

Since 2012
LocosLab GmbH, Bonn (Germany)
Co-founder and CEO

Since 2009
University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg (Germany)
W3 professor and leader of the Networked Embedded Systems group

2011–2015
Fraunhofer FKIE, Wachtberg (Germany)
Lead Scientist of the Sensor Networks and Pervasive Computing group

2007–2011
Fraunhofer IAIS, Sankt Augustin (Germany)
Lead Scientist of the Sensor Networks and Pervasive Computing group

2007–2009
University of Bonn, Bonn (Germany)
W2 professor and leader of the Sensor Networks und Pervasive Computing group

2003–2007
University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart (Germany)
Postdoctoral researcher in the Distributed Systems research group (Institute for Parallel and Distributed Systems)

2001–2003
University of Freiburg, Freiburg (Germany)
Postdoctoral researcher in the Databases and Information Systems research group

1999–2001
University of Freiburg, Freiburg (Germany)
Doctoral candidate and academic staff member in the Databases and Information Systems research group

1995–1999
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA)
Research assistant and teaching assistant in the Real-Time Computing Lab and Advanced Computer Architecture Lab

1993–1994
Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus (Spain)
Teaching assistant in the Computer Science Department

2003–2005
Habilitation postdoctoral qualification at the University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart (Germany)

1999–2001
Doctorate at the University of Freiburg, Freiburg (Germany)

1996–1998
Master of Science in Computer Engineering (area of emphasis: Artificial Intelligence) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA)

1992–1996
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA)

• Nominated for the German ‘Professor of the Year 2017’ award
• Nominated by the Board of the University of Duisburg-Essen as an official candidate for the North Rhine-Westphalian Innovation Prize for research in 2015
• Nominated for the North-Rhine Westphalian FRP.NRW Award for coordinating EU projects
• Awarded a grant as part of the Eliteprogramm (elite programme for postdoctoral researchers) from the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung
• Received a postdoctoral prize from the University of Freiburg for the thesis ‘Processing XML in LDAP and its Application to Caching’
• Received the Distinguished Achievement Undergraduate Award from the University of Michigan for the highest overall achievement in the Bachelor’s degree programme
• Twice recognised as a James B. Angell Scholar at the University of Michigan for outstanding achievements

• Chair and member of the Board of the GUIDE Centre for Start-Ups and Innopreneurship
• Member of UDE’s Research Board
• Member of the Research Data Services Academic Advisory Board
• Deputy Director and member of the Board of the Centre for Logistics and Traffic
• Member of the UA Ruhr Research Council
• Member of the Strukturstärkungsrat (the structural enhancement council accompanying the 5-Standorte programme)
• Member of the core team of Technologie Zentrum Wedau