1998 Habilitation (Above Ph. D.), University of
Ilmenau, Germany, Dept. of Computer Science and
Automation,
Title of habilitation theses: Computational
Intelligence for Technical Applications
1991 PhD, University of Dortmund, Germany, Dept. of
Mechanical Engineering,
Title of Theses: Expert System for On-line Diagnostics
in Industry. Advisor: Professor H.-D. Steffens
(Mechanical Engineering)
1986 Master of Science, University of Dortmund,
Germany, Dept. of Computer Science, minor in Medicine,
University of Bochum.
Advisor: Professor W. Merzenich
1981 Pre-College, RWTH Aachen
Research Experience:
Since 2007 Director of the Center for Knowledge
Management and Intelligent Systems (KMIS), University
of Siegen, Germany
Since 2004 Head of Institute of Knowledge Based
Systems and Knowledge Management, University of Siegen,
Germany
2003-2004 Laboratory of Micromechanics (LMM),
School of Materials Science & Engineering, Georgia
Institute of Technology, Visiting Professor
2002-2003 Florida State University, Tallahassee,
Visiting Professor
2000-2002 University of New Mexico, ACE Center
(later ISE, Intelligent System Engineering), Invited
Researcher
1998-2000 University of Ilmenau, Institute of
Software Engineering (Substitute), Professor
1995-1997 University of Dortmund, established a CI
& Image Processing Group
1994 University of Paderborn, Institute of
Information Systems, Invited Chair Professor
(Substitute)
1991-1994 University of Dortmund, Senior
Researcher
