Career

Research and teaching positions

2017 - ... Professor (W3) of Computer Science, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany.
2017 - ... Adjunct Professor of Computational Science and Computer Science, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany.
2012 - 2017 Full Professor of Computational Science and Computer Science, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany.
2010 - 2017 Chair of Research Center for Mathematics, Modeling, and Computing (MAMOC), Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany.
2006 - 2012 Associate Professor of Computational Science and Computer Science, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany.
2004 - 2006 Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Germany.
2001 - 2004 Postdoctoral Researcher & Lecturer, University of California, Davis, U.S.A.
1998 - 2001 Research and Teaching Assistant, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany.
1997 Research Assistant, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany.
1996 Visiting Scholar, Politecnico di Torino, Italy.
1992 - 1997 Study of Computer Science, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany.

Education

University degrees

2001 Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) in Computer Science at the Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany.
1997 M.Sc. (Diplom) in Computer Science at the Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany.
1994 B.Sc. (Vordiplom) in Computer Science at the Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany.

Distinctions

Fellowships & awards

2008 First place of 2008 IEEE Visualization Design Contest.
2002 Preis des Fördervereins des Forschungszentrum Informatik for an outstanding dissertation in computer science, awarded at the Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany.
1996 Scholarship for visit, Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy.