Career
- 1989 – 1992 Research assistant at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Philipps University of Marburg as part of a Siemens AG research project
- 1993 Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in the field of data compression
- 1993 – 1997 Head of Department for IT Security Technologies at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research in Darmstadt
- 1997 – 2000 Senior management positions at two medium-sized IT companies in the field of product development for eCommerce solutions and security consulting for information and communication technology
- 2000 – 2005 Founder and Managing Director of a technology company in the field of “Content Security” with a subsidiary in the USA
- 2005 – 2008 Business unit manager and authorized signatory at the electronics group Thomson S.A., an international provider of products and services for the media and entertainment industry
- Since 2008 professor at the FHDW in Paderborn and consultant for Deutsche Thomson OHG as part of the BMWi-funded research program THESEUS, in which a new internet-based knowledge infrastructure is being developed
- 2015 – 2024 Vice President for Research, Development and Transfer
- President of the FHDW since 2024
Research and consulting focus
- Management and implementation of more than 10 publicly funded research and development projects (RACE, ACTS, IST, BMBF, BMWi and Land NRW) in the areas of conditional access, interactive broadcasting and monitoring services, digital watermarking, mobile network security infrastructures, eBilling, security platforms and Internet-based knowledge infrastructures
- Consulting in the field of IT security, security management and project management
- Current research in the field of content and process security, protection of ontologies, security and quality of services, corporate security
