| born 1971 | 
| 1991 - 1996 | Industrial Engineering & Management, TU Kaiserslautern | 
| 1997 - 2001 | PhD at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institute of Production Systems and Logistics, Prof. Wiendahl | 
| 2002 - 2004 | Habilitation at Leibniz Universität Hannover, visiting researcher at ETH Zürich (Prof. Schönsleben), Universidade de São Paulo (Prof. Gomes de Oliveira) and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (Prof. Tseng) | 
| 2004 - 2009 | Working in industry, Robert Bosch GmbH | 
| since 2009 | Professor of Production Management at Hamburg University of Technology, Director of the Institute of Production Management and Technology |