Profile

• Chairman of Neuroinformatics at Hochschule Ruhr West
• Director of the Computer Science Institute
• Dean of Faculty 1
• Scientific Director of zdi-center Bottrop, Oberhausen and mint4u


• Chairman of Prosperkolleg e.V.


• Visiting Professor at Babeș-Bolyai-University Cluj


• Expert in AI, sensor data fusion, computer vision, HCI, autonomous systems, predictive maintenance, twin transition, circular economy

Activities & Memberships

• Promotionskolleg NRW (Section 'Computer- and Data-Science')
• Institute Positive Computing at HRW
• Prosperkolleg e.V.
• Strategic Circle of zdi NRW (since 2018)
• Advisory Board “Round Table Circular Economy NRW”
• Monitoring Committee ERDF 2021–2027
• Advisory Board “Umbau 21” 2017-2024
• Advisory Board Member of the Circular Economy Hotspot 2022 Bottrop.
• European Neural Network Society (ENNS)
• The German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM)
• Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI)