Curriculum vitae

  born in Berlin, Germany
1973 - 1977 Military service
1977 - 1982 Study of geodesy and geography at the University of Bonn
1980 Four months practical course at the Instituto Geographico Militar in La Paz, Bolivia
1983 - 1985 Vermessungsreferendar in Nordrhein-Westfalen
1985 - 1995 Software development and customer training in photogrammetry at Carl Zeiss, Oberkochen, Germany
1994 Dr.-Ing. examination in digital cartography: "Platzierung von Schrift in Karten" (automatic name placement), University of Bonn
1995 - today Professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Neubrandenburg
2001 - today Leading positions in standardization projects of the ISO/TC 211 "Geographic information / Geomatics"
2002 - 2003 Work at the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing in Ottawa
2005 - 2008 Dean of the Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Geoinformatics, Geodesy, and Civil Engineering
2008 - 2009 Work at the University of Maine, USA
2011 - today Professor at the Politechnika Koszalińska, Poland