| 1986-1992 |
Electrical Engineering at RWTH Aachen, Graduated as Dipl.-Ing. |
| 1991 |
Industrial Traineeship with Siemens Communication Systems in England |
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1992-1997
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RWTH Aachen, Researcher at the Chair of Communications Networks (ComNets/Prof. Walke):
- Various collaborative research projects related to Vehicle-to-X Communications and in particular Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC)
- Contributions to CEN TC 278 Road Transport and Traffic Telematics / ISO TC 204 Intelligent Transport Systems
- Project Team Leader of expert group drafting the EN ISO 14906 standard
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| 1997 |
Dr.-Ing. with thesis on „Mobile Radio Networks for European Traffic Telematics", summa cum laude |
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1997-2005
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Siemens AG, Mobile Communication Networks:
- Standardization Manager 3G Networks (in ITU-T, ETSI, 3GPP)
- Director Systems Engineering: Performance Enhancing Proxies
- Director Product Line Management: Mobile Service Platforms
- Board member of WAP Forums (today Open Mobile Alliance http://www.openmobilealliance.org/
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| 1998 |
„Borchers-Award“ of the RWTH Aachen |
| 1999 |
„Outstanding Contribution Award“ of the ITU-T for contributions to the standardization of 3rd generation mobile networks (IMT-2000) |
| 1999-2004 |
Teaching assignment for lecture on "Mobile Radio Networks" at RWTH Aachen |
| 2001 und 2003 |
Management-Programs at Business Schools Kellogg/Chicago and Babson/Boston |
| Since 2005 |
Head of the Communication Networks Institute of the Dortmund University of Technology:
- Member of the Board the DFG SFB 876 (Deputy Speaker)
- Project coordinator of the projects Airshield, AVIGLE and LARUS
- Speaker of German-French research projects Anchors and BERCOM
- Lead scientist of the projects MORE und SPIDER
- Member of the steering group of the German Centre for Rescue Robotics (DRZ e.V.)
- TU Dortmund Lead/Work Package Leader of the projects MobileEmerGIS, Galileo4FireBrigades, MobisPro,SAVE, EDeMa, e-IKT, Sec2, FFWS, DFG research group, TIE-IN, AIRBEAM, metropol-E, ...
- Co-Chair of ITG (IEEE sister organization in Germany) committee "Communication networks and systems" (2008-2019)
- Officer within IEEE TC on Smart Grid Communications (Vice Chair of committee)
- Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Intern. Workshops on Wireless Networking for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Wi-UAV (2010-2018)
- Co-Editor of the Journal on "Emerging Telecommunication Technologies", Wiley (from 2007 to 2015)
- Editor of IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine (from 2016)
- More than 250+ peer-reviewed conference papers, journal papers, book chapters and patent applications (H-Index 35 according to Google Scholar as of Sept 2020, List of Publications)
- 14 Best Paper Awards
- 18 supervised dissertations, approx. 15 PhD students
- Co-Founder and scientific mentor of start-up phase of spin-offs comnovo GmbH, verisco GmbH and Smart Robotic Systems GmbH
- Member of advisory board of Centre for Entrepreneurship (CET) of TU Dortmund University (since 2018)
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Memberships
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- IEEE Senior Member
- VDE ITG
- VDI
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