Scientific CV: Dipl. Inform. (Saarland University, 1996), Dipl. Biol. (Saarland University, 1998), PhD in Computer Science (Saarland University, 2001), Visiting Research Scholar at the School of Computer Science (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, 1998-1999), Research Associate in the Deduction Systems Group (Saarland University, 1999-2003 and 2003-2005), Young Visiting Researcher at the School of Informatics (University of Edinburgh, UK, 2003), Senior Researcher (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, 2005-2006), Head of Innovative Technologies and Communication Systems (MIP Pharma GmbH, 2006-2009), Head of Innovative Technologies and Communication Systems (MIP Managementberatung GmbH, 2009-2013), Senior Consultant (DHC Dr. Herterich und Consultants GmbH, 2013-2016), Professor of Software Engineering (Koblenz University of Applied Sciences, since 2016).

Research interests: Deduction systems, tutorial systems, language generation, explainable artificial intelligence, process models in software engineering.