2017                    Founder and Co-Organiser of the Sustainable Textile School Chemnitz

 

Since 2017          Referee of German Research Foundation

 

2016                    Founder of Textil^hoch2 e.V (association for the support of textile engineering and textile art)

Since 2016          Chairman of the board of Cetex association for development of textile machinery

 

Since 2016          Saxeed Mentor for Start-ups

 

Since 2015          Member of the Jury Saxeed ideas contest

Since 2014          Professor of Textile Technologies at Chemnitz University of Technology

2007 – 2014        Several Leading positions within Division Textile, Member of the Management, Rieter AG, Winterthur,   

                            Switzerland and Rieter Ingolstadt GmbH, Germany

2004 – 2006        Project Leader for Textile Technology at Groz-Beckert KG, Albstadt, Germany

2004                    PhD at Dresden University of Technology

1998 - 2004         Research Associate at Institute of Textile and Clothing Technology (ITB),

                            Dresden University of Technology

1995 - 1998         Study of Mechanical Engineering, Dresden University of Technology

1992 - 1995         Study of Mechanical Engineering, Cooperative State University Heidenheim