Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Handmann |
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| Affiliation: Hochschule Ruhr West - Campus Bottrop Address: Postfach 10 07 55, 45407 Mülheim an der Ruhr E-Mail: mail@handmann.net |
Curriculum Vitae
After studying Communications Engineering at the University of Cooperative Education in
Stuttgart (Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University) between 1988 and
1991, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Handmann graduated as Dipl.-Ing.(BA). Afterwards, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Handmann studied at
the Ruhr University in Bochum from 1991 to 1995 Electrical Engineering
(graduation Dipl.-Ing). In the following time he had research stays at the Fraunhofer
Institute IIS-A in Erlangen, at the Institute of Communication Acoustics,
Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the Leiden University in the Netherlands.
From 1995 to 2001 Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Handmann was employed at the Chair of Theoretical Biology
at the Institute of Neuroinformatics, Ruhr-University Bochum. He worked as a
researcher focusing on Artificial Intelligence, Image- and Video Processing,
Driver Assistance Systems and Sensor Data Fusion. Between 1998 and 2001, he headed the research
group 'Image Processing'. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Handmann finished his dissertation in 2000 at the Faculty
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ruhr University Bochum
(Dr.-Ing.). Between 2000 and 2008 Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Handmann was a Group Leader and Lead
Architect in the field of Biometric Systems at L-1 Identity Solutions AG (formerly
ZN Vision Technologies AG). During this period he initiated a large number of
projects in research and prototype development. Several prototypes were
further developed to products and marketed accordingly. In 2008 Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Handmann was appointed to a
professorship at the University of Applied Sciences of South Westfalia, where
he headed the laboratory of Computer Science, Image Processing and Media Technology.
Since 2010 he is Professor at the Hochschule Ruhr West -
University of Applied Sciences. At the Bottrop Campus he is Director of the
Computer Science Institute. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Handmann holds the Chair in Neuroinformatics.
Since 2012 he is Scientific Director of the zdi-center Bottrop (zdi - 'Future through
Innovation') and the mint4u competence center at the Hochschule Ruhr West.
In 2013 Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Handmann was a visiting professor at the University of Science and Technology in Qingdao, China.
He is founding member of the Section
'Digitization in Economics and Society' of the Graduate Institute
NRW and of the
Institute of Positive Computing (Hochschule Ruhr West), both founded in 2016. He is
founding member of the Section 'Media and Communication' of the Graduate Institute
NRW, founded in 2017. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Handmann is appointed member of the advisory board of 'Umbau 21' in
Northrhine Westfalia since 2017 and is appointed member of the strategic circle of zdi
in Northrhine Westfalia since 2018. In 2018 Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Handmann became Managing Director of iQserv GmbH, a spin-off in the field of non-destructive testing, and he is founding member and Chairman of
Prosperkolleg e.V.. In addition Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Handmann became Scientific Director of the zdi-center
Oberhausen in 2018. He is Dean of Faculty 1 at the Hochschule Ruhr West.