Education Record:

1973 – 1977	Breddeschule in Witten (elementary school)
1977 – 1986	Schillergymnasium in Witten (secondary school) graduation: "Abitur"
1986 – 1994	University of Erlangen-Nuremberg: studies in computer science (combined with electrical engineering) specialization in database and multimedia systems graduation (1994, february): "Dipl.-Inf. Univ." (equivalent to M. Sc. in computer science)
2004, June	University of Bayreuth: finishing the dissertation on information retrieval and receiving the "Dr. rer. nat." (equivalent to Ph. D. in computer science)

Ocupation Record:

1994	Employee at 2:1 inc. in Nuremberg (as application programmer )
1995 – 1998	Scientific staff member, Database Group, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
1998 – 2001	Scientific staff member, Group for Applied Computer Sciences, University of Bamberg, Germany
2001 – 2004	Scientific staff member, Chair for Applied Computer Sciences I, University of Bayreuth, Germany
since 2005	Chief executive officer of robbenSoft a business company for effective information retrieval solutions (like IRStream).