University Degrees and Appointments

1. University of California; B.A., Psychology; June, 1977
2. University of California, Davis; King Hall School of Law; Juris Doctor (J.D.); June, 1982
3. Technischen Hochschule Darmstadt; Dr. rer. nat; Computer Science; June, 1993.
4. Honorary Professor for Argumentation Technology, Department of Mathematics and Natural Science, University of Potsdam

Employment History

1. Research Scientist; Research Center for Information Law; Institute for Applied Information Technology; German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD); Sankt Augustin, Germany;1983 to 1985
2. Research Scientist; Expert Systems Division; Institute for Applied Information Technology; German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD); Sankt Augustin, Germany;1985 to 1994
3. Manager; Zeno Project on Computational Dialectics; Expert Systems Division; Institute for Applied Information Technology; German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD); Sankt Augustin, Germany; 1994 to 1999
4. Manager; Mediation Systems Team; Institute for Automous Intelligent Systems; German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD); Sankt Augustin, Germany; 1999 to 2000
5. Senior Research Scientist; ECCO Competence Center for Collaborative and Mobile eGovernment; Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS); Berlin, Germany; 2001 to 2004.
6. Senior Research Scientist; ELAN Competence Center for eGovernment; Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS); Berlin, Germany; 2004 to present.

Awards

Best Exhibit Prize; The Zeno Mediation System; 23rd German Annual Conference for Artificial Intelligence (KI99); Bonn, Germany; 1999.