University Degrees and Appointments

  • University of California; B.A., Psychology; June, 1977
  • University of California, Davis; King Hall School of Law; Juris Doctor (J.D.); June, 1982
  • Technischen Hochschule Darmstadt; Dr. rer. nat; Computer Science; June, 1993.
  • Honorary Professor for Argumentation Technology, Department of Mathematics and Natural Science, University of Potsdam, since 2010.
  • Technische Universität Berlin; Habilitation; Intelligent Systems; 2012

Employment History

  • 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
  • Research Scientist; Expert Systems Division; Institute for Applied Information Technology; German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD); Sankt Augustin, Germany;1985 to 1999
  • Senior Research Scientist; Institute for Automous Intelligent Systems; German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD); Sankt Augustin, Germany; 1999 to 2000
  • Senior Research Scientist; Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS); Berlin, Germany; 2001 to 2017.
  • Retired since September, 2017.

Awards

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