Director of the Institute, 1998–2012

2018 – present	Senior professor at the Institute for Polymer Materials and Plastics Technology (PuK)
2012–2018	Holder of the Lower Saxony chair in fiber-reinforced plastics
1998–2012	director of the Institute for Polymer Materials and Plastics Technology (PuK), professor
1990–1998	director of the construction methods laboratory at ETH Zurich; establishment and expansion of the research laboratory with a focus on “fiber-reinforced composite technology”
1980–1985	Group leader for “fiber-reinforced plastics and processes” at Dornier Flugzeugwerft Industrie, Friedrichshafen
1979	Ph.D. at the Institute for Plastics Processing (IKV) under Prof. Menges ; thesis topic: “Temperature-resistant plastics—manufacturing, structure, and properties based on selected examples”
1974–1979	Research assistant at the Institute for Plastics Processing (IKV) at RWTH Aachen University
1969–1974	Studied mechanical engineering at RWTH Aachen University, specializing in plastics engineering, and graduated with a Diplom-Ingenieur degree