Born: July 1972 in Altdöbern (former eastern part of Germany)
Apprenticeship: Business Data Processing (1989 - 1992)
Study: Economics (1994 - 1999), with focus on
Business Informatics
Logistics and Production Management
Marketing
Research activities:
2002 - 2007: Research assistant (PhD candidate) at the IZBI Leipzig, Working Group Databases and Data Integration under supervision of Erhard Rahm
Dec. 2007: Ph.D in Computer Sciences
2007 - 2009: Post Doctoral Researcher and Senior Developer at the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig interest in management and integration of molecular-biological data, data cleaning of patient data, and matching life science ontologies
2010 - present: Post Doctoral Researcher and Senior Developer at the Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases, University of Leipzig interest in management and integration of molecular-biological data in large biomedical research projects
2011 - 2012: Lecturer for database systems at the University of Applied Sciences for Telecommuinications (HfT Leipzig)
2012 - 2014: Professorship (as substitution) for database systems, web databases and information systems at the University of Applied Sciences Leipzig (HTWK Leipzig)
Industrial practice:
1995: Tutor for various software systems at the Symdata Leipzig GmbH
1997: Dept. Information Management at the Stadtwerke Düsseldorf GmbH
1999 - 2001: IT-Consulting in several projects (banking, health insurance, automobil, letter transport) with activities and different project responsibilities in
Data warehouse design (system architecture),
Data warehouse schema design,
Data logistics (ETL), e.g., by using Informatica PowerMart, and
Analysis (OLAP), e.g., by using MicroStrategy, BusinessObjects, and Cognos
Army service: (1992 - 1993) - Medal of Honor of the German Army (Bronze)
