| 1996-2003 | | study of computer science at the TU Dortmund |
| 1999-2002 | | student assistant at LS 10, TU Dortmund / software design |
| 2002-2003 | | diploma thesis at LS 1, TU Dortmund and Astronomisches
Institut der Ruhr-Universität Bochum: "Entwicklung und Visualisierung eines virtuellen astronomischen Instruments" |
| since 2003 | | member of the Astronomisches Institut der Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
| since 2003 | | software architect of the control software of the Lucifer imager and multi-object spectrograph at the LBT,
an international project with partners in Italy and the USA |
| 10/2003 | | ADASS XIII, Strasbourg, France |
| 2003-2006 | | dissertation grant by the Klaus Tschira Stiftung (KTS) |
| 06/2004 | | SPIE Astronomical Instrumentation, Glasgow, Scotland |
| since 2006 | | employee of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
| 05/2006 | | SPIE Astronomical Instrumentation, Orlando, USA |
| 09/2007 | | AG-Meeting on Cosmic Matter, Würzburg, Germany |
| 2008 | | supervising the development of a new control software for a radio telescope at the university |
| since 2008 | | active in the scientific employee committee of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
| since 2008 | | interdisciplinary research in astronomy and computer-science |
| 2009-2010 | | supervising a group of students in a data mining project in cooperation with the TU Dortmund |
| 2010 | | supervising the development of a medium resolution spectrograph for the telescope of the institute |
| 06/2010 | | AstroInformatics 2010, Pasadena, USA |
| 09/2010 | | AG-Meeting the Cosmos at High Resolution, Bonn, Germany |
| since 2011 | | head of software development group in the Lucifer project |
| 2011 | | PhD (Promotion) in Physics at Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie
der Ruhr-Universität Bochum: "The LUCIFER Control Software
The Core System, Instrument Control and Scientific Applications" |
| 2011 | | design and construction of a ultra-slim and high precision filter wheel |
| 09/2011 | | AG-Meeting Surveys & Simulations, Heidelberg, Germany |
| 11/2011 | | ADASS XXI, Paris, France |
| 2011-2012 | | seminar in data mining in astronomy in cooperation with computational intelligence at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg |
| since 2012| | member of the Astronomische Gesellschaft |
| since 2012| | statistical analysis of LMC/SMC photometry
in cooperation with Lehrstuhl für Stochastik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
| 09/2012 | | AG-Meeting the Bright and the Dark Sides of the Universe, Hamburg, Germany |
| 11/2012 | | ADASS XXII, Champaign, USA |
