Education	1976: MSc in electrical engineering and computer sciences from RWTH Aachen
	1983: Doctor degree (PhD) in robot programming from RWTH Aachen
Employment	1976: Researcher and project engineer at the Machine Tool Laboratory (WZL) / Aachen in the field of CIM and robotics
	1983: Manager department for industrial automation at WZL / Aachen
	1985: Deutsche Lufthansa AG / Frankfurt, Assistant to the Director Aircraft Maintenance
	1986: Boeing Corp. / Seattle, Management exchange program
	1987: Lufthansa, Manager planning department aircraft maintenance shops
	1987: Lufthansa Frankfurt, General Manager Aircraft Maintenance
	1991: University of Kaiserslautern, Professor for industrial automation
	1993: Board of directors of the Center for Production Engineering Kaiserslautern
	1998: Founder and Director of the Center for Human-Machine-Interaction at the University of Kaiserslautern
	2004: Director of the Center for Human-Machine-Interaction at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH
Calls	1998: Call as Professor for Production Systems from Ruhr-University Bochum
	2002: Call as executive director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Information and Data Processing IITB in Karlsruhe associated with a professorship for Interactive Real-time Systems at the University of Karlsruhe
Honours	1983: Borchers-ribbon of excellence from the RWTH Aachen
	2005: VDI-Medal of honour for outstanding services in the VDI/VDE-Society for Measurement and Automatic Control
Academical Activities	1997 - 1999: Dean of the Department for Mechanical and Process Engineering and member of the senate of the University of Kaiserslautern
	2002: Member of the senate working group for structure- and development -planning of the University of Kaiserslautern
Memberships	VDI/VDE-GMA, ACM (senior member), ACM-SIGCHI, IFAC, GfA
Voluntary Activities	Since 2002:General Chair of the USEWARE-Congress series
	Since 2005: Chairman of the Executive Board of the SmartFactory-KL
	2002 - 2008: Chairman IFAC TC 4.5 on Human-Machine-Systems
	Since 2008: Chairman IFAC CC 4 on Mechatronics, Robotics and Components
Assessor Consultant	to DFG, BMBF, divers foundations, banks und courts
	Member of many International Program Committees
Advisory Board Memberships	Flanders Mechatronics Technology Centre Leuven, Belgium
	EAE Electronics GmbH Mainz
	VDE-ITG scientific advisory board
	VDI/VDE-GMA Society for Measurement and Automatic Control
	Springer-VDI Publishing Berlin
	Scientific journal on Engineering Manufacture, Short Communications in Manufacture and Design
Selected publications	Books:
	* Useware-Engineering für technische Systeme, Springer Verlag, 2004
	* Der intelligente Versager, Primus Verlag, 2005
	Invited Plenary Papers:
	* IFAC Symposium on Analysis, Design, and Evaluation of Human-Machine Systems 2007, Seoul
	* IFAC World Congress 2008, Seoul
	* MESA International Plant-to-Enterprise Conference 2008, Prag
	* IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems In Manufacturing 2009, Moskau
	* European Annual Conference on Human Decision-Making and Manual Control 2009, Reims
	* International Workshop on Software Convergence Technology 2009, Seoul
	* IFAC International Conference on Management and Control of Production and Logistics 2010, Coimbra