Vita

Academia:

Iowa State University, USA (2007 - now)

Postdoctoral Scholar at the Department of Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (1999 - 2006)

Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, PMA (2005 - 2006)
Doctoral Student at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, PMA (2001 - 2005)
Thesis: "Probabilistic Approaches in Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing Coordination and Control" (Doctoral degree "Doctor in Engineering (PhD)" awarded June, 2005)
Research assistent, PMA (1999 - 2001)
Project: "Holonic Manufacturing Systems (HMS)"

Technical University Dresden, Germany (1990 - 1993)

Graduate student at the Department of Electrical Engineering
Thesis: "Fuzzy Control Simulation System" (Diplom Ingenieur in Electrical Engineering" awarded Sept., 1993)

Technical University Leipzig, Germany (1988 - 1990)

Undergraduate student at the Department of Electrical Engineering
("Vordiplom in Electrical Engineering")

Industry:

CASA Berlin, Germany (1998 - 1999)

Research Engineer
Project: "Bayesian Networks in Industrial Diagnosis"

Nippon Shooter Sendai, Japan (1996 - 1997)

Research Engineer
Project: "Design of Distributed Control for Conveyor systems"

CV

Research Interests

Distributed intelligent systems, multi-agent and holonic systems, intelligent control, self-organization, complexity measures, computational mechanics - methods for building efficient predictive models from data. All of which using tools from probability and statistics to understand nonlinear dynamical systems. Applications involving intelligent manufacturing systems, manufacturing automation.