Professional Experience
    1988 Research Associate, Unversität Siegen, NA31 experiment
    1989 Scientific fellowship at CERN, OPAL experiment
    1991 Research associate DESY, OPAL experiment
    1993 Research staff, Universität Mainz, experiments ALEPH and ATLAS at CERN
    1997 Habilitation in Mainz,"Measurement of Z Boson Parameters at LEP"
    2000 CERN associate, ALEPH experiment
    since 2001 Professor at University of Karlsruhe (now KIT), CMS experiment
    since 2004 contact professor "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes"
    2017-2019 Dean of Studies of the Physics Department

  Selected activities
    2001-2015 member of GridKa Technical Advisory Board (TAB)
    2006-2012 DESY Physics Research Committee (PRC), Co-chair 2011-12
    since 2008 member of GridKa Overview Board
    2006-2011 member of BMBF Gutachterausschuss
    since 2007 member CMS Computing Resource Board
    2012-2015 member of "Kommittee für Elementarteilchenphysik (KET)"
    since 2017 Edior in Chief of Journal "Computing and Software for Big Science"

  Research interests
    CMS experiment:
    - QCD and electroweak physics
    - Higgs search in tau final states;
    - Grid computing
    other: outreach and education of physics teachers, KIT contact of "Netzwerk Teilchenwelt"