Education

• 1981: Diploma in statistics at the University of Dortmund
• 1982: Doctorate in statistics at the University of Dortmund
• 1988: Habilitation in Mathematical Statistics at the University of Trier

Employment

• 1981 - 1984: Research assistant at the Department of Statistics at the University of Dortmund
• 1984 - 1989: Research assistant at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Trier
• 1989 - 1993: Heisenberg Fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
• 1993 - 2021: Professor of Mathematical Statistics and Scientific Applications at the Faculty of Statistics at the Technical University of Dortmund

Funded research projects

• 2009 - 2021: Project leader in the projects B2 (until 2013) and C2 of the Collaborative Research Center (SFB 823) "Statistical Modeling of Nonlinear Dynamic Processes" (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG)
• 2008 - 2010: Project leader in subproject A7 of the Collaborative Research Center/Transregio TRR 30 "Process-integrated production of functionally graded structures based on thermo-mechanically coupled phenomena"
• 2007 - 2010: Project manager in the joint project "SKAVOE" (funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research)
• 2006 - 2010: Project leader in the transfer project T2 of the SFB 475 (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG)
• 2004 - 2013: Project leader (from 2008 spokesperson) in the Research Training Group "Statistical Modeling" (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG)
• 2001 - 2009: Project leader in the Graduate School "Production Engineering and Logistics" (funded by the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia)
• 1998 - 2000: Project leader in the research group "Life in Curved Landscapes, Flexible Normalism" (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG)
• 1998: Semester abroad at the ENITIAA de Nantes (funded by the Volkswagen Foundation)
• 1997- 2009: Project leader in the projects A2 and C6 of the Collaborative Research Center (SFB 475) "Complexity Reduction in Multivariate Data Structures" (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG)
• 1995 - 2003: Project leader in the Research Training Group "Applied Statistics" (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG)
• 1994 - 2021: several smaller research projects in cooperation with industrial partners (e.g. Procter and Gamble, Danone, Ruhrkohle AG)

Collaboration in scientific societies

• 1993 - 2020: Member of the "Sensory Science Working Committee in the Food and Agricultural Products Standards Committee (NAL)" of the German Institute for Standardization (DIN)
• 1997 - 2001: Member of the Advisory Board of the German Region of the International Biometric Society
• 2007 - 2011: Member of the Advisory Board of the European Network of Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS)