The Vice-President

• born December 29th, 1958
• married, three children

Current Position

• Chair of Practical Computer Science (Head of the Distributed Systems Group) since 07/2002
• Vice-President Research, University of Bamberg, since 10/2011
• Member of the Chief Information Office, University of Bamberg, since 01/2007
• Chairman of the Board of Bavarian CIOs, Universität Bayern e.V., since 07/2011

Education and Degrees

• 1978:  Secondary School Leaving Examination (Abitur), Wittlich
• 1985: Diploma degree in Computer Science, University of Bonn
• 1990: PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Computer Science, University of Bonn
• 1995 Habilitation (venia legendi) in Computer Science, University of Siegen

Career History

• 1985 to 1990: Research and Teaching Assistant, Computer Science Institute, University of Bonn
• 1990 to 1995: Postdoc position (‘Oberingenieur’), Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Siegen
• 1994: Guest Professor (Lehrstuhlvertretung), Dept. of Mathematics , University of Giessen
• 1994 to 1995: Guest Professor (Lehrstuhlvertretung), Dept. of Mathematics, University of Münster
• 1996 to 2002:  Associate Professor (C3), Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Münster
• Since 2002: Full Professor of Practical Computer Science, Faculty of Information Systems and Applied Computer Science, University of Bamberg
• 2007 to 2009: Dean of the Faculty of Information Systems and Applied Computer Science, University of Bamberg
• since 2010: Member of the Board of Bavarian CIOs, Universität Bayern e.V.