Since 2023
Professorship of Materials Science at the Institute for Product and Production Engineering at the FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, School of Engineering

2022
Awarded the title of Privatdozent PD in the teaching field of Materials Engineering

2020
Habilitation on the topic: Potentials and limits of combined boundary layer treatment technologies in connection with a solid/liquid phase boundary layer treatment by means of high-energy blasting processes for cast iron materials; degree: Dr.-Ing. habil.

2013–2023
Laboratory Manager Wear Testing at the Institute for Materials Engineering (IWT) at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg

2010–2023
Laboratory Manager Thermal Electron Beam Technologies at the Institute for Materials Engineering (IWT) at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg

2007
Doctorate on the topic: Contribution to the liquid phase surface treatment of components made of aluminium materials by means of electron beam; degree: Dr.-Ing.

1997–2023
Research assistant at the Institute for Materials Engineering (IWT) at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg in the department of Surface Technologies

1990–1997
Studies in materials engineering at the Faculty of Materials Science and Materials Engineering at the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg (Germany); degree: Dipl.-Ing. Materials Engineering 

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• 2023 MIPBAC: "Numerical Modelling of an Industrial Process for Bimetallic Al-loys Casting", (Innosuisse 102.365.1 IP-ENG); Co-op. partners: HESSO HEPIA, FHNW HT IPPE, Kugler Bimetal SA, Geneva
• 2023 AVIAN: "Aluminium Vacuum brazIng in stAndard furNaces" (INNO-SUISSE 100.708.1 IP-ENG); Co-op. partner: Listemann AG, Winterthur

Projects before 2023 can be found at TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Institute of Materials Engineering, research group e-beam