| May 29, 1955 | Born in Salzgitter-Bad, Germany |
| May 1974 | Abitur‘ at Kranich-Gymnasium, Salzgitter |
| 1974 - 1980 | Studies in Mathematics at the Technical University of Braunschweig |
| 1977 - 1980 | Teaching assistant at several mathematical departments of TU Braunschweig |
| 1980 - 1989 | Scientist at the Research Institute of AEG in Berlin, working on reliability theory, software engineering and testing |
| 1987 - 1991 | Project leader of research projects on software verification and validation, in particular systematic software testing |
| July 1989 | AEG research institutes taken over by Daimler-Benz AG |
| 1992 - 1995 | Research Manager at the Research Institute "Forschung Systemtechnik" of Daimler-Benz AG in Berlin; managing several projects in the field of systematic testing as well as software engineering with formal methods. |
| May 1995 | Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Technical University of Berlin |
| 1995 - 1998 | Senior Manager at the Research Institute "Forschung Systemtechnik" of Daimler-Benz AG in Berlin |
| since November 1998 | Director and Head of the Software Technology Research Lab as well as the Research Lab in Bangalore (India) of DaimlerChrysler AG |
| Current interest | Management of software technology research, software engineering, requirements engineering, formal methods, software reliability |