Vice-President for Research, Knowledge Transfer and Transformation

Areas of responsibility

  • Strategic planning for research, knowledge transfer and transformation
  • Research profile
  • Research Service
  • Technology transfer and start-ups
  • Research Fund
  • Large-scale Equipment Committee
  • University Library
  • Management of research data
  • Research information systems
  • Quality management for this section

Biography

1964

Born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on March 17

1983 – 1985

Student of technical mineralogy at TU Darmstadt

1985 – 1987

National service

1987 – 1989

Student of technical mineralogy at TU Darmstadt (continuing interrupted program)

1989 – 1994

Research assistant at the TU Berlin Institute of Non-Metallic Materials

Oct. 1994

Doctorate on “Kristallisationsverhalten und Rheologie von Lithiumdisilicatschmelzen”
Degree obtained: Dr.-Ing.

1995 – 1996

Project manager at Sicowa GmbH & Co. KG Verfahrenstechnik für Baustoffe in Aachen

1996 – 1998

Post-doc student at the Arizona Materials Laboratory of the University of Arizona, USA

1998 – 2001

Post-doc student at the TU Berlin Institute of Material Science and Technology

Aug. 2001

Obtained Habilitation degree in non-metallic inorganic materials from Faculty III – Process Sciences – of TU Berlin

1998 – 2002

Tutor at Stanford University Overseas Campus Berlin

2001 – 2002

Post-doc student at BAM, the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing in Berlin

2002

DFG (German Research Foundation) Heisenberg fellowship at TU Berlin

Oct. 2002 – present   

Professor of glass and glass technology at TU Clausthal

2010

Guest of the Mechanics and Glasses Department of the University of Rennes, France

2012 – 2018

Chair of the Nucleation, Crystallisation & Glass Ceramics Committee of the International Commission on Glass (ICG)

2013 – present

Academic director of the DEV (German Enamelers Association)

2016 – 2017

Guest of the Vitreous Materials Laboratory of the Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil 

2016 – 2024

Member of the DFG expert forum on materials science and engineering

2021 – present

Chair of the board of the DGG (German Society of Glass Technology)

2021 – 2024

Dean of natural and materials science at TU Clausthal

2024 – 2025

Guest of the Graduate School of Engineering of Kyoto University, Japan

Apr. 2025 – present

Vice-President for Research, Knowledge Transfer and Transformation at TU Clausthal