Consumers and market research

Shape design

Digital Design

Transportation Interior Design

since October 2019       
Dean of Studies Master Design

2013 - 2019   
Dean of the Faculty of Textile & Design

2007 - 2013 
Vice Dean of the Faculty of Textiles & Design

since 2006      
Professor at Reutlingen University

2003 - 2006
Packaging Developing Manager at Lever-Faberge|Europe in Buxtehude

Responsible for innovation and consumer insight, interface function to marketing, design agencies, suppliers and the global team

2003              
Lecturer for CAD design at the HAW Hamburg

1998 - 2002
Team leader for CAD design at MCC-smart in Renningen

Collaboration in the working group Integration of computer-aided methods to optimise the development process.

Member of the Alias Automotive Group

1998 - 2000
Lecturer in design at the Stuttgart University of Cooperative Education, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (Automotive)

1996 - 1998
Team leader Application Engineers - Design at Alias|wavefront Munich

Interface to development in Toronto

Professional service for Mercedes-Benz and Opel

CAD training, seminars and presentations

1994 - 1996 Goretzky Design in Tübingen

CAD training for designers at Mercedes-Benz in Sindelfingen

Development of the recumbent tricycle go-one to series production readiness

1991 - 1994
CAD designer and key user at Mercedes-Benz in Sindelfingen

1989 - 1991
Design modeller

1988 - 1989
Lecturer at the youth art school "Kulturgut Alte Schule" in Hattingen

Participation in the Ruhrschreifestival

1988 - 1989
Employed in the occupational therapy department of the state hospital in Dortmund

1983 - 1988
Diploma in Object Design (FH) at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts

1981 - 1982
Employed as an engraver at F.W. Schnürle in Duisburg

1978 - 1981
Training as an engraver

Projects

Project work with students in the field of TID focussing on the following topics:

Sustainability, interactive materials, new mobility concepts

Laboratories

CAD laboratory

• Sketching, modelling, VR

Clay laboratory

• Modelling with clay

RP lab

• Production of 3D models from virtual data