Career
- 1987 – 1993 Studied physics and mathematics at RWTH Aachen University
- 1993 – 1996 Research assistant at the RWTH Aachen University
- 1996 Doctorate with focus on computer simulations
- 1996 – 2002 Employee at SAP AG, Walldorf; focus on software development of the operating system-related layers of the SAP system in the SAP LinuxLab
- Since September 2002 at the FHDW Paderborn; holder of the Heinz Nixdorf Endowed Professorship for Computer Engineering; acquisition and management of numerous research and development projects
- Head of the Master’s program IT Management
Research and consulting focus
- Applications of data science
- Process modeling
- Performance analysis of processes and systems
- Simulation (DES, agents, system dynamics, …)
- Modern software architectures, incl. SAP
- Technology trends and evaluation
- Control systems, semantic technologies and AI
- Software development
- Mobile and context-sensitive systems
