Vita
Since October 2007 | Professor for Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE) at Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg. |
2003 - 2007 | Juniorprofessor for Information Retrieval and Emmy Noether Fellow at Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg. |
Mar./Apr. 2005 | Invited Professor at Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6), Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris, France. |
2001 - 2003 | Postdoctoral Researcher and BT Senior Fellow at Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), Computer Science Division, University of California at Berkeley, research group of Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh, USA. |
1996 - 2001 | Researcher at the Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg at the Institute for Knowledge and Language Processing of the Facultyof Computer Science. |
Nov./Dec. 1999 | Visiting Researcher of the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Mechatronics Research Group, University of Melbourne, Australia. |
April 2001 | Ph.D. degree in computer science (Dr.-Ing.) from Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg. |
1990 - 1996 | Studies of computer science at the Technical University of Braunschweig. |
1996 | Diploma Thesis at the DASA GmbH, Hamburg (now European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), Airbus). |
October 1996 | Diplom in computer science (Dipl.-Inform.) from the Technical University of Braunschweig. |
1990 | Scientific Assistant at Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR),Göttingen. |
1987 - 1990 | Apprenticeship to MaTA (Mathematisch-technischer Assistent) at Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Göttingen. |
1987 | Abitur at the Pädagogium, Bad Sachsa. |