• Study of Computer Science with Mathematics (Probability Theory and Statistics) as supplementary subject at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Diploma 1998;
• 1998-2003 Research and Teaching Assistant in the Institute of Computer Science IV at the University of Bonn, Group for Operating Systems and Stochastic Modelling, PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) 2004;
• since 2004 Assistant Professor at Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg, Group for Communication Services, Telecommunication Systems and Computer Networks;
• Visiting Professor in the Information Engineering Department at the University of Pisa, Italy (May 2005);
• Visiting Scholar in the Department of Telematics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim (March 2007 and March 2009);
• since April 2009 Associate Professor of Stochastics in the Department of Mathematics at Clausthal University of Technology.

Main research interests and topics are in the area of computational applied probability and statistics, in particular stochastic modeling and complex systems analysis. Applications are focused on performance evaluation of computer and communication systems, operations research, and systems biology.

• Stochastic Processes and Applications, Queueing Theory
• Heavy-Tailed Distributions, Self Similarity, Long Range Dependence
• Structured Numerical Analysis of Markovian Models with Large State Space
• Modeling and Analysis of Biological and Gene Regulatory Networks
• Robust Statistical Estimators and Stochastic Simulations
• Variance Reduction, Importance Sampling, Rare Event Simulation
• Adaptive Optimization of Estimators and Simulations, Ant Colony Optimization

Publications

Lectures (mostly in German language)

• COST IC0703
   Data Traffic Monitoring and Analysis: Theory, techniques, tools and applications for the future networks
  
  
•  Network of Excellence EuroNGI/FGI
   Design and Engineering of the Next/Future Generation Internet
  
  
•   ARC RARE
   INRIA Cooperative Research Action Rare Event Simulation
  
  
•   BioNetMod
   Formale Modellierung und effiziente computergestützte Analyse biologischer und genetischer Netze
    (~ Formal Modeling and efficient computational analysis of biological and genetic networks)
  
  
• COST 279
  Analysis and Design of Advanced Multiservice Networks supporting Mobility, Multimedia and Internetworking

• Guest Editor
  Special Issue on Rare Event Simulation Methodologies and Applications. Part I + Part II
  SIMULATION 83(11-12), 2007
  
  
• Conference Organizer
  RESIM 2006: 6th International Workshop on Rare Event Simulation, Bamberg, Germany, October 8-10, 2006
  
  
• Program Committee Co-Chair
  BIOTECHNO 2008: International Conference on Biocomputation, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Technologies, Bucharest, Romania, June 29 - July 5, 2008
  TELET 2007: 2nd International Workshop on Teletraffic Modeling and Management, Mauritius, May 13-16, 2007
  
  
• Program/Steering Committee Member
  ISC 2009: Industrial Simulation Conference 2009, Loughborough, UK, June 1-3, 2009
  AICT 2009: 5th Advanced International Conference on Telecommunications, Venice, Italy, May 24-28, 2009
  QoSim 2009: 2nd International Workshop on the Evaluation of Quality of Service through Simulation, Rome, Italy, March 3, 2009
  RESIM 2008: 7th International Workshop on Rare Event Simulation, Rennes, France, September 24-26, 2008
  AfricaMS 2008: 2nd IASTED Africa Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Gaborone, Botswana, September 8-10, 2008
  ISC 2008: Industrial Simulation Conference 2008, Lyon, France, June 9-11, 2008
  AICT 2008: 4th Advanced International Conference on Telecommunications, Athens, Greece, June 8-13, 2008
  MS 2008: 19th IASTED International Conference on Modeling and Simulation, Quebec City, Canada, May 26-28, 2008
  MMB 2008: 14th GI/ITG Conference on Measurement, Modelling, and Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems, Dortmund, Germany, March 31 - April 2, 2008
  QoSim 2008: 1st International Workshop on the Evaluation of Quality of Service through Simulation in the Future Internet, Marseille, France, March 3, 2008
  HET-NETs 2008: 5th International Conference on Performance Modelling and Evaluation of Heterogeneous Networks, Karlskrona, Sweden, February 18-20, 2008
  MS 2007: 18th IASTED International Conference on Modeling and Simulation, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 30 - June 1, 2007
  MSO 2006: 6th IASTED International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Optimization, Gaborone, Botswana, September 11-13, 2006
  AICT 2006: 2nd Advanced International Conference on Telecommunications, Guadeloupe, French Carribean, February 19-22, 2006

• Scientific Reviewer
  Journals:
  
  • ACM TOMACS
  • Computer Networks
  • Journal of Simulation
  • Operations Research
  • Performance Evaluation
  • SIMULATION
  Several International Conferences