Studies:

October 1982 - February 1989:

Studies in Mathematics with Economics, University of Cologne.

Diploma in Mathematics, February 1989.

Academic Career:

May 1989 - June 1995:

Assistant teacher for Statistics and Econometrics at the Faculty of Law and Economics of the Saarland University, Saarbrücken .

Doctorate, January 1995.

July 1995 - June 2001:

Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law and Economics of the Saarland University, Saarbrücken.

Habilitation, April 2002 (venia legendi for Statistics and Econometrics).

September 2002 - August 2006:

Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law and Economics of the Saarland University, Saarbrücken.

November 2006 - March 2008:

Postdoctoral Research fellow of the project Optimization of dynamic consumption streams under uncertainty in CRC 649 Economic Risk, Institute of Mathematics, Berlin University of Technology.

April 2008 - September 2008:

Replacement of the Chair of Statistics, Faculty of Economics and School of Business and Business Administration, Humboldt University of Berlin.

October 2008 - March 2009:

Visiting Professor for Stochastic Finance, Institute of Mathematics, Berlin University of Technology.

April 2009 - February 2011:

Postdoctoral Research fellow of the project Structure adaptive data analysis in CRC 649 Economic Risk, Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics.

Since March 2011:

Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Mathematics,  University of Duisburg-Essen.

Decembre 2015:

Appointment as Professor of Mathematics at the Faculty of Mathematics,  University of Duisburg-Essen.