Current Positions:

• Since November 2011:
  • Scientific head of the User Group Softwarearchitektur, Softwareforen Leipzig.
• Since August 2011:
  • Member of the excellence cluster “Inflammation at Interfaces”.
• Since March 2010:
  • Member of the Computational Sciences Center.
• Since October 2009:
  • Spokesperson of the Kiel KoSSE projects.
• Since November 2008:
  • Member and Principal Investigator of the excellence cluster “Future Ocean” (Second Phase).
• Since October 2008:
  • Full Professor (W3) at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, Kiel University

Previous Positions and Achievements:

• 2012 - 2014:
  • Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Kiel University.
• 2011 - 2013:
  • Member of the SPEC Research Group Steering Committee.
• 2006 - 2012:
  • Member of the D-Grid-Beirat
• 2005 - 2008:
  • Chair of the Graduate School on Trustworthy Software Systems TrustSoft, University of Oldenburg
• 2003 - 2004:
  • Director of the Department of Computing Science, University of Oldenburg
  • Vice Dean of the School of Computing Science, Business Administration, Economics, and Law at the University of Oldenburg
• 2003 - 2008:
  • Full Professor (C4) at the Department of Computing Science, University of Oldenburg
• 2000 - 2010:
  • Member of Kuratorium OFFIS
• 2000 - 2008:
  • Scientific Head of the Computer Service Unit (ARBI) of the Department of Computing Science, University of Oldenburg
• 2000 - 2002:
  • Associate Professor (C3) at the Department of Computing Science, University of Oldenburg
• 1998 - 2000:
  • Assistant Professor at INFOLAB, Tilburg University (KUB)
• 1994 -1998:
  • University assistant (C1) in the Software Technology Group of the University of Dortmund
• 1994:
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Dortmund with the subject: `Prototyping Parallel Algorithms in a Set-Oriented Language’
• 1989 - 1993:
  • Research assistant in the Department of Computer Science of the University of Essen
• 1983 - 1989:
  • Diploma studies in Computer Science from the Technical University of Braunschweig

Awards:

• Best paper award at the VISSOFT 2015 conference for our contribution “Hierarchical Software Landscape Visualization for System Comprehension: A Controlled Experiment” (together with Florian Fittkau and Alexander Krause)
• Tansferprämie 2012 der Innovationsstiftung Schleswig-Holstein (ISH)
• Tansferprämie 2011 der Innovationsstiftung Schleswig-Holstein (ISH)
• Best paper award at the Software Engineering 2011 conference for our contribution “Self-Adaptive Software Performance Monitoring” (together with Jens Ehlers)
• Best paper award at the Cloud Computing 2011 conference for our contribution “Model-Based Migration of Legacy Software Systems to Scalable and Resource-Efficient Cloud-Based Applications: The CloudMIG Approach” (together with Sören Frey)
• CentER Fellow
• Marie Curie Fellow

In between, I visited:

• 2014: University of Southampton
• 2002: University of Health Informatics and Technology Tyrol
• 1998, 1999, 2004: Trinity College, Dublin and Dublin City University
• 1994: The University of Edinburgh, Department of Artificial Intelligence and Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC)