Career after graduation

since 09/2017

• Professor of Manufacturing Processes, Department of Production Engineering, Universität Bremen and
• Director of the Manufacturing Technology Department of the Institut für Werkstofftechnik (IWT) and
• Head of the Laboratory for Micro Machining (LFM), Bremen

2012-2017

• Member of the Senate of the Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg

2008-2012

• Vice Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

2005-2017

• Full professor for production engineering and Managing director of the Institute for Production Technology and Quality Management (IFQ) Otto-von-Guericke-University in Magdeburg (Germany)
• Geschäftsführender Institutsleiter des IFQ

2001-2005

• Professor and Chair of for production engineering, TU Delft (Netherlands)

1999-2000

• Associate Professor an der Keio Universität, Yokohama (Japan) Department of System Design Engineering, Laboratory of Production Engineering

1989-1999

• Research associate at the Institute of Production Engineering and
• Head of the Fine Machining and Systems Department and
• Head of the Manufacturing Processes Division
• Chief Engineer of the Institute

Memberships

• CIRP: Internationale Akademie für Produktionstechnik
  Fellow Membership, Mitglied des Council
• WGP: Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft für Produktionstechnik
• DFG: Mitglied des Senats- und Bewilligungsausschusses für Sonderforschungsbereiche der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, seit 2014
• euspen: European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology
• Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), Dearborn/USA

Other

Expert activity for the

• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
• VolkswagenStiftung
• Arbeitsgemeinschaft industrieller Forschungsvereinigungen "Otto von Guericke" e.V. (AIF)
• National Forschungsförderer in Österreich, Spanien, Schweiz, Niederlande

Awards

2018

• Honorary Doctorate (Dr. h.c) from the Fakultät für Maschinenbau und Informatik of the University of Miskolc /Hungary

2016

• Honorary doctorate awarded by the Georgian Technical University in Tbilisi

2011

• Appointment as Prof. h.c. of the Fakultät für Maschinenbau und Informatik at the University of Miskolc /Hungary