Since 11/15/2002

Member of the faculty council of the School of Engineering of the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg since 10/01/2007

Reviewer for IEEE Transactions of Audio, Speech and Language Processing and EUSIPCO

Working for the Network of Excellence HUMAINE (2003-2007) and the project pf-star (2002-2004) of the European Community

Teaching position since 2004

Researcher at the Chair of Pattern Recognition (Computer Science Department 5)

1997-2002

Study of computer science at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Major subjects: pattern recognition, computer graphics, and database systems

Minor subjects: physiology

Diploma thesis: Interpolation of hidden Markov models (speech recognition)

Pre-diploma thesis: Confidence assessment for word hypothesis (speech recognition)

1996/1997

Military service

1996

University-entrance examination at the Benedikt-Stattler-Gymnasium in Bad Kötzting

01/13/1977

Born in Bad Kötzting