Since 1.3.2016
Director of Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO, Stuttgart (until December 31, 2022 Executive Director)
2017 – 2023
Chairman of the Fraunhofer Group for Innovation Research
2016 – 2024
Acting Director of IAT University of Stuttgart
2016
2013 – 2016
Acting Director of Fraunhofer IAO, Stuttgart and IAT, University of Stuttgart
2012
Appointment to honorary professorship by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Production Systems and Logistics
Since 2011
Executive director of Fraunhofer Italia Research s.c.a.r.l.
2009 – 2013
Division and deputy director at Fraunhofer IAO and the Institute for Human Factors and Technology Management IAT University of Stuttgart
Since 2009
Head of Company Development and Work Design at Fraunhofer IAO and IAT University of Stuttgart
2003 – 2009
Director and member of the Board of Directors at Fraunhofer IAO
1996 – 2003
Head of the New Work competence center as well as work with the Virtual Environments competence center and the Ergonomic Engineering and Public Health market strategy teams at Fraunhofer IAO
1991 – 1996
Head of Work Design at Fraunhofer IAO
1983 – 1991
Scientist at Fraunhofer IAO and the Institute of Industrial Manufacturing and Management IFF, University of Stuttgart
1997
Award of engineering doctorate: “SYVERA – development of a system for virtual and ergonomic work design”
1979 – 1983
Research assistant at Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA and at the Institute of Process Engineering and Power Plant Technology IVD, University of Stuttgart
1983
Thesis for engineering degree (Dipl.-Ing.): “Criteria for defining and evaluating mixed forms of work”
1977 – 1983
Student of mechanical engineering at the University of Stuttgart