• studies of computer sciences at the University of Tübingen with focus on distributed operating systems, computer architecture, computer networks and computer graphics
• Doctor of Natural Sciences by the University of Tübingen for his work on “Automatic Runtime Selection of Algorithms, Based on Runtime Predictions and Among the Use of Various Aspects of Artificial Intelligence” (a project done in cooperation with the Computer Science Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - RPI - in Troy, NY in the USA)

Work experience:

• system administrator and course lecturer at the computer center, University of Tübingen
• research associate at the Wilhelm Schickard Institute for Computer Sciences in Tübingen

Specialized in:

• computer and information technology
• automatisation and optimization 
• robot technology
• artificial intelligence 
• protection of computer implemented inventions

Member of:

• the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI)
• the European Patent Institute (epi)

Foreign languages:

• English

Publications