2022 - present | Chairman of the board of WiGeP (German research Society of Product Development) |
2020 - present | Elected member of the Academic Senate of the TUHH |
2018 – present | Elected member of the board of WiGeP (German research Society of Product Development) |
2017 - present | Elected member of the Advisory Board of the Design Society |
2016 - present | Elected member of the review board of DFG (German Research Society) responsible for Mechanical Design, Machine Elements and Product Development |
2015 | Hamburger Lehrpreis 2015 der Behörde für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Gleichstellung für herausragende Leistungen in der Hochschullehre |
2015 - present | Responsible person for the international Master degree “Mechanical Engineering and Management” |
2013 – present | Advisory board member of the scholarship with industrial sponsors program, dual@TUHH |
2011 – 2012 | Vice President of Academic Affairs of TUHH |
2009 – 2011 | Deanship Mechanical Engineering |
2008 - present | Responsible person for the Master degree “Product development, Materials and Production” |
2007 - 2009 | Deputy of the deanship Mechanical Engineering |
2005 - present | Professor and head of the institute of Product Development and Mechanical Engineering Design, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) |
1994 - 2005 | Head of Design, Technical Director and General Manager in various companies in mechanical and plant engineering |
1992 – 1994 | Post doc; group leader „CAD“ and self-employed development of a research priority „Design for recycling“ |
1988 – 1994 | Scientist at the Institute of Engineering Design, Prof. Meerkamm, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg/Germany |