Biographie:

• 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

Forschungserfahrung:

• 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