Academic Education 1985 - 1991 Diplom-Kaufmann, Business Administration, Business IT, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg 1991 - 1995 Dr. rer. pol., EPK editor - a software tool for development and maintanance of electronic product catalogues in small and mid-size companies, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Professional Career 1988 - 1990 Co-Founder, Managing Director, Res Oeconomica Verlags GmbH, Nürnberg 1991 - 1995 Research group for business information systems, Bavarian research center for knowledge-based systems (Bayerisches Forschungszentrum für Wissensbasierte Systeme, FORWISS), Erlangen 1995 - 1998 Product development Human Ressource Magagement Systems, DATEV eG, Nuremberg 1997 - 1998 Assistant Professor for business information systems, Georg-Simon-Ohm-University, Nuremberg since 1999 Professor for business information systems, Pforzheim University, Pforzheim Professional Activities 2002 - 2005 Project manager for the implementation of E-Learning at Pforzheim University 2003 - 2007 Director of the University Computing Center Courses     Introduction in business information systems   Development of Multimedia Applications 1   Development of Multimedia Applications 2   IS Project   Multimedia Applications I   Multimedia Applications II   Projects / Case Studies   Project Course: Multimedia and Communication   Seminar: Multimedia and Communication Competences and Interests     E-Business   Software Engineering (esp. multimedia applications)   Communication Science   Marketing