Vita

Life at the University

  • Professorship at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Institute for Production Technology and Institute for CIMTT for the subject areas Work Preparation, Work Planning, PPS Systems and Digital Factory Technology (since 10.2014)
  • Project Manager Digital Factory of the UAS Kiel (since 01.2015)
  • Managing Director at the Institute for Computer Integrated Manufacturing Technology Transfer (CIMTT) in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (since 02. 2017)
  • Subproject Manager and Co-Founder of the Competence Centre Mittelstand 4.0 Kompetenzzentrum Kiel (2018)

Works in between PhD and UAS Kiel

  • Manager of Industrial Engineering for system areas “Vehicles and Damage Repairs” as well as “Projects” at DB Vehicle Maintenance, Frankfurt am Main (07/2013-09/2014)
  • Manager of Department of Production Preparations and Production Optimisation at the DB vehicle maintenance plant in Neumünster (07/2012-06/2013)
  • Manager of Department of Production Preparations at the DB vehicle maintenance plant in Neumünster (04/2011- 06/2013)

From school to PhD

  • Abitur at the Max-Planck Schule, Kiel (1995)
  • Basic military service (07/1995-08/1996)
  • Apprenticeship as joiner and cabinet maker, Altenholz (09/1996-09/1999)
  • Study of Process Engineering at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the TU Dresden (10/1999-09/2005)
  • Stay abroad at the ETH Zürich, Laboratory for Wood Physics at the Department of Forest Sciences (09/2001-12/2001)
  • Scientific employee at the Institute for Tool Machines and Production Technology of the Technische Universität Braunschweig (10/2005-03/2011)
  • PhD in Engineering (02. 2012)