Personal Information

Work Experience

Since
April 2007

Group Manager

NEC Europe Ltd., Network Laboratories, Heidelberg, Germany

Head of the Mobile and Wireless Network Research Group

Responsibilities: Leader of research group of 15 researchers; coordination of research area; acquisition, execution and management of research projects; handling of personnel matters; 3GPP and Femto Forum Standardisation                

03/2004
to
03/2007

Senior Research Staff Member

NEC Europe Ltd., Network Laboratories, Heidelberg, Germany

Full-time position in the Next-generation Internet Research and 3G Technology Group

Responsibilities: Acquisition, execution, and management of research projects; Supervision of internships and final year students; IETF and 3GPP Standardisation (LTE/SAE)               

03/1998
to
02/2004

Research Associate

Computing Department, Lancaster University, U.K.

Full-time position in the Distributed Multimedia Research Group of Prof. David Hutchison

Responsibilities: Acquisition, execution, and management of research projects; Collaboration with industry; Research consulting; Evaluation of external research; Teaching

09/1996

to

02/1998

Research Assistant

Faculty of Computer Science, University of Ulm, Germany

Part-time position in the Distributed Systems Group, with Prof. Konrad Froitzheim

Responsibilities: Conduction of research projects; Course support

08/1995

to

08/1996

Research Assistant

Computer Science Department, University of West Florida, USA

Part-time position at the Institute for Human & Machine Cognition of Prof. Kenneth Ford

Responsibilities: Collaboration in research projects; Course and teaching support; System and network administration

06/1994

to

07/1995

Student Researcher

Faculty of Computer Science, University of Ulm, Germany

Part-time position in the Teaching Systems Group (“Unterrichtsrechner-gruppe”) under the supervision of Dr. Klaus Murmann

Responsibilities: Administration of the departments Unix pool (about 70 SUN workstations)

07/1993

to

05/1994

Teacher

Adult Evening School, Münsingen, Germany

Responsibilities: Development and teaching of adult evening classes (Introduction to personal computers)

10/1991

to

10/1992

System Programmer

Setec Maschinenbau GmbH, Münsingen, Germany

Full-time position in R&D

Responsibilities: Development of machine control programs in Assembler (Z80) and Turbo Pascal

Education

10/1998

to

11/2002

Lancaster University, U.K.

Ph.D. in Computer Science

Thesis Title: “A Component-based Active Router Architecture”

Research Areas: Active and Programmable Networks, Network Services and Software Components

09/1996

to

04/1999

University of Ulm, Germany

MS.c. in Computer Science (“Diplom Informatik”)

Master Degree in Computer Science with Minor in Electrical Engineering

Dissertation Title: “QoS based Real-Time Audio Streaming on the Internet“

Research Areas: Real-time Communication, Audio/Video, IPv6, Quality-of-Service

08/1995

to

08/1996

University of West Florida, USA

Exchange Student (M.Sc. Program)

Study and Research Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Neuronal Networks, Robotic, Expert Systems, Internet Communication and Services

10/1992

to

07/1995

University of Ulm, Germany

BS.c. in Computer Science (“Vordiplom in Informatik”)

Bachelor Degree in Computer Science with Minor in Electrical Engineering

08/1977

to

06/1990

Schools

High School (“Allgemeines Gymnasium”) in Münsingen, Germany

Completed the German “General Abitur”

Civil Service

06/1990

to

10/1991

General Hospital in Münsingen, Germany

Languages

German – Native 

English – Fluent

French – Beginner

Academic Involvement

Since

1998

Publications

• Over 50 contributions in academic journals, international conferences and workshops, as well as many contributions to standardisation bodies and patent applications

• Co-author of a book (Ambient Networks)

• Numerous invited talks and keynote speaches
  

Events and Activities

• Reviewer for many workshops, conferences and journals, as well as books

• Active on program committee of several international workshops and conferences in the area of networking and communications.

• Preparation and running of conference tutorials
• Workshop chair
  

Awards

June 2003

Lancaster University Commercialisation Award

2003 Award Winner: LandMARC Project Team for the notable involvement in the development of Mobile IPv6 for Microsoft Windows 2000, XP and .NET Server, and the acquisition of industry funding in the order of £750,000 from Cisco Systems, Microsoft Research and Orange Ltd.

Responsibilities: Software Development, Testing and Coordination

July 2002

Microsoft Windows Embedded Academic Excellence Award

2002-2003 Award Winner: LandMARC Project Team of Lancaster University for the development of (Mobile) IPv6 for Windows CE 4.x.

Responsibilities: Software Design, Development and Coordination