| 1976 -1979 |
Training as a skilled worker for foundry technology |
| 1979 - 1982 |
Military service |
| 1982 - 1987 |
Studies in metallurgy (development of metallic materials) at the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg |
| 1987 - 1990 |
Industrial activity in research and development of a foundry company (focus: Wear analysis, wear resistance of ferrous materials, grinding and preparation plants). |
| 1990 - 2014 |
Worked at the Institute for Foundry Technology, Düsseldorf. Preparation of numerous process analyses, expert reports and damage analyses on the manufacture, properties and behaviour of casting products. |
| 1992 |
REFA training foundry |
| 1998 |
Doctorate on composite casting of cast iron materials with steel alloys at the Ruhr University Bochum |
| 2004 |
Publicly appointed and sworn expert for cast materials by the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Düsseldorf (now Krefeld) |
| 2001 - 2006 |
Head of the metallography laboratory |
| 2005 - 2014 |
Head of the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering |
| 2012 - 2014 |
Management of the Institute for Foundry Technology, Düsseldorf |
| Since 2014 |
Member of “Team Deutscher Maschinenexperten“ |
| Since 2015 |
Freelance expert and consultant |
| Since 2016 |
Technology Manager at Foseco Nederland B.V. |
