Curriculum Vitae
Professional Experience
since 2004
Tenure Professorship (Transport Economics) - until 2005 part-time
Transport and Communications Department, Faculty of Business-Logistics-Transportation, Erfurt University of Applied Sciences
-- since 2007 Institut Verkehr und Raum , since 2011 Head of the Institute
2003-2004
Substitute Professorship (Transport Economics) - part-time
Transport and Communications Department, Erfurt University of Applied Sciences
2000-2005
Principal Consultant / Senior Consultant
PricewaterhouseCoopers Management Consulting Services, based in Munich, Germany - from 2003 integrated into IBM Business Consulting Services
1999-2000
Consultant
CSC PLOENZKE AG, Financial Services/ Insurances, based in Munich, Germany
1996-1999
Research Officer
Assistant to Prof. Dr. Werner Rothengatter, Transport and Communication Department,
Institute for Economic Policy Research, University of Karlsruhe / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
1998/99 Guest lecturer at the European Training Centre for Railway Management, Brugge
and the Department of Transport Economics at the Technical University of Budapest
1995-1996
Teaching Assistant, Intern
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Marburg, Germany
Marketing and Network Planning Department, Long-Distance Passenger Division of
Deutsche Bahn AG (German Federal Railways), Mainz , Germany
Transport and Communication Department,
Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Wuppertal, Germany
1991-1992
Orderly (part-time)
Buergerhospital / Department of Geriatric Medicine, Stuttgart-Vaihingen, Germany
1990-1991
Orderly (Nursery Internship and Civil Service)
Intensive Therapy Centre, University Medical School, Leipzig, Germany
Higher Education
1999 Dr. rer.pol. (PhD in Economics) "summa cum laude",
University of Karlsruhe / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Thesis "A Constraint Logic Programming Approach to Travel Demand Modelling"
1996: Research stay at Centre de Recherche sur les Transports (CRT), Université de Montréal
1997: Summer Professional Program at the Center for Transport Studies, M.I.T. Cambridge, MA
1995 Diplom-Physiker (~MSc in Physics, Minor: Computer Science), among top- 5% performers
Philipps University of Marburg
Thesis: "Learning Algorithms for Associative Storage and Detection of Phase-coded Activity Pattern"
1991/93 Undergraduate studies of Physics at the University of Stuttgart