Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. (PhD) degrees received from University of Rostock in 1994 and 1997, respectively
habilitation (Dr.-Ing. habil.) April 2002, title of thesis: "Data Compression - Basics, Techniques, and Their Application for the Processing of Greylevel and Colour Images" (in German)
private lecturer (Privatdozent) for signal processing since 2002
lectures:
Image Data Compression (in German) from 1998 to 2002 at University of Rostock
1999 and 2000 visiting professor at University of Kristianstad (Sweden) topic: Image Data Compression
2003/2004 visiting professor at University of Rostock, lecture: Image Data Compression (in German)
2004-2007 visiting professor at Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, lecture: Digital Video Signal Coding
