1986-1993

Studied mathematics, psychology and computer science at the universities of Trier, Erlangen-Nuremberg and Düsseldorf

1996

Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

1995+1999

Research stays at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem (Israel)

1998-1999

Research stay at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (USA)

1996-2000

Research assistant at the Chair of General Psychology II at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

2000

Specialist for data analysis in the "Database Marketing" department of Printus GmbH, Offenburg

2000-2004

Specialist for data analysis and databases in the areas of "marketing" and "central controlling" at Deutsche Herold AG and the Zurich Group, Bonn

since 2004

Professorship for Business Information Systems and Business Statistics at Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences

2011

Habilitation in Philosophy of Science at the University of Trier