Employment history:

• Since October 2008:
  • Full Professor (W3) at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, Kiel University
• 2003 - 2008:
  • Full Professor (C4) at 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 Tilburg University (KUB)
• 1994 -1998:
  • University assistant (C1) in the Software Technology Group of the University of Dortmund
• 1989 - 1993:
  • Research assistant in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Essen

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).

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
• 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
• 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’
• 1983 - 1989:
  • Diploma studies in Computer Science from the Technical University of Braunschweig

Awards:

• Best Paper award at the The Ninth International Conference on Advanced Collaborative Networks, Systems and Applications 2019 for our contribution “Modularization of Research Software for Collaborative Open Source Development” (together with Christian Zirkelbach and Alexander Krause)
• 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 @ Tilburg University Fellow
• Marie Curie Fellow

In between, I visited:

• 2014, 2019: 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)