Career

1949	May 13, born in Erlangen
1968-1974	Studied mathematics and economics at the Universities of Karlsruhe and Freiburg
1978	Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) at the University of Karlsruhe
1979-1980	Research fellow of the DFG. Visiting fellow at the Institute of Statistics at Graz University of Technology and at the Institute of Mathematical Stochastics at the University of Freiburg
1980-1986	Research assistant at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Mainz
1985-1990	Lecturer at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Kaiserslautern
1986	Joined IBM Germany
1987	Senior Consultant IBM Germany
1990	Habilitation at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Mainz
1990	Chief Consultant IBM Germany
1991	Appointment to the position of university professor (grade C 4) for "Stochastic Models in Engineering" at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Clausthal University of Technology
1995	Senior Management Consultant IBM Germany
1998	Appointment to the IBM Technical Expert Council (advisory body to IBM Executive Management Europe)
1996-2000	Dean of the Mathem.-Naturwiss. Faculty of Science at Clausthal University of Technology
2000-2002	Vice-Rector for Studies and Teaching at Clausthal University of Technology
2002-2009	Vice President for Studies and Teaching at Clausthal University of Technology
07/2008-2009	Executive President of Clausthal University of Technology
since 21.10.2009	President of Clausthal University of Technology
since 01/01/2011	Chairman of the Presidium of the Technical University of Lower Saxony

Prizes and awards

1987	Outstanding Innovation Award from IBM
1990	Exceptional Achievement Award from IBM
1992	Appointed to the IBM Academy of Technology
1995	Appointed Senior Technical Staff Member of IBM Corporation

Visiting Professor

WS 1996/97

Graz University of Technology

Research associations, working groups and committees

since 2010	Member of the board of the e-learning academic network e.V.
since 2004	Managing Director of the Simulation Science Center at Clausthal University of Technology
2002-2010	Chairman of the Advisory Board for Study and Student Counseling of the Lower Saxony State University Conference
1992-2003	Head of the Technology Board of IBM Deutschland Speichersysteme GmbH
1992-2003	Spokesman of the VDI Technical Committee "Simulation and Optimization"

Research areas

• Applied stochastic processes
• Generalized matrix geometric methods and matrix continued fractions
• Queueing theory
• Service engineering (call center management, production planning and control, air traffic management)

Personal

• Artistic and literary activities: photo and text productions (mainly in the field of alpine sports) for international daily newspapers, trade journals and magazines, including Der Stern, Der Spiegel, Quick, Die Zeit, Bunte Illustrierte, Hörzu, Epoca, Paris Match, Newsweek, etc. (total circulation of all photos and texts: over 50 million).
• 1 book publication Alpine Ausrüstung (Rother Verlag, Munich, 1984).
• Collaboration with newspaper editors, publishers, press offices and advertising agencies for 40 years