CURRICULUM VITAE
Academic Qualification
- MSc, Mechanical Engineering, University of Duisburg-Essen (GER)
- Research Assistant, Department of Metal Forming Technology, Max-Planck-Institute for Iron Research, Duesseldorf (GER)
- Scholarship of the Max-Planck-Society (GER)
- PhD, Habilitation and Venia legendi, RWTH Aachen University (GER)
Career Milestones
- Full Professor of Metal Forming Technology and Director at the Institute of Production Technology and Logistics, University of Kassel (GER)
- Associate Professor of Production Technology, Delft University of Technology (NL)
- Management positions in production and research & development in steel & automotive / aerospace / defense industry (GER + CH)
- Speaker of the Collaborative Research Center SFB-TRR 30 “Process-integrated manufacturing of functionally graded structures on the basis of thermo-mechanically coupled phenomena”, German Research Foundation DFG (GER)
- Scientific Coordinator of the Centre for Applied Metal Forming Technologies – METAKUS, Baunatal (GER)
- Founder of Metakus Automotive, Wolfsburg (GER)
