since 2020  Freelance Design and University Lecturer: Institute for Multimedia and Interactive Systems (IMIS) at the University of Luebeck

2008  Founding member of the “Center for Cultural Studies Lübeck” (ZKFL).

2008  Founding member of the working group “Tangible Interaction in Mixed Reality” and later specialist group “Tangible Interaction” (Fachgruppe Be-greifbeare Interaktion) of the German Society for Computer Science (GI)

2001-2020  University Lecturer, Researcher, and Project Leader: Institute for Multimedia and Interactive Systems (IMIS) at the University of Luebeck

1999-2000  Research Associate: Ruhr-University Bochum

1996-1998  Visiting Professor: University of Wismar – University of Technology, Business, and Design / Design Department

1995-1996  Freelance Designer

1994 Dissertation at Universität Hamburg

1994  Visiting Professor: Boston University / College of Fine Arts

1993  Researching and writing my Ph.D. thesis supported by Harvard University.

1991-1992  Research Associate: Network for Education and Culture, Schleswig-Holstein

1989-1991  Freelance Designer

1985-1992  Visiting Professor: Hamburg University of Applied Sciences / Design Department

1983-1988  Researcher, Exhibition Design: Museum for Art and Cultural History: Realization of the museum for industrial and working culture “Geschichtswerkstatt Herrenwyk“, Hanseatic City of Lübeck

1979/80 One-year scholarship, BGSU, Ohio, USA: Research on current trends in aesthetics and art theory and art events in the USA, as well as many study trips to many metropolises in the USA. 

1976-1982  Interdisciplinary studies: with a focus on philosophy (Prof. Dr. Heinz Paetzold) and pedagogy (Prof. Dr. Micha Brumlik), art history (Prof. Dr. Horst Bredekamp), composition (Prof. György Ligeti), sinology (Prof. Dr. Mau-Tsai Liu), as well as sociology and psychology at Universität Hamburg.

1972-1976 Study of free art/sculpture (Prof. Erwin Schutzbach) and 3D-Design at the Werkkunstschule/Fachhochschle für Design, Wiesbaden (heute Hochschule Rhein-Main)