Studied mathematics and business mathematics in Bayreuth and Bordeaux
Assistant and doctorate also in Bayreuth in the field of statistics with Prof. Dr Helmut Rieder, for dissertation "Approaches to the Robustification of the Kalman Filter" Prize of the Stochastics Section of the German Mathematical Society DMV
Post-doc and further specialisation in robust statistics and contributions to the statistical software R in Bayreuth.
2008 Transfer to the Department of Financial Mathematics at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM in Kaiserslautern, where he worked on and managed numerous industrial projects with partners in the financial sector and on the topic of fraud detection
At the same time, continued research activities and habilitation at the TU Kaiserslautern in 2011 with the reviewers Profs. Jürgen Franke (TU Kaiserslautern), Stephan Morgenthaler (EPF Lausanne) and Roland Fried (TU Dortmund).
Since summer semester 2015 Professor of "Mathematics with a focus on Applied Statistics" at the University of Oldenburg (UOL)
At the University of Oldenburg, alongside research and teaching
Member of the course management of the continuing education master's programme "Risk Management for Financial Service Providers" at the Centre for Lifelong Learning
Establishment of a joint centre for statistics with the University of Bremen as a visible platform for statistics in School V and beyond in research and teaching
ORR Innovation Award Paper of the year for "Robust Estimation of Operational Risk" (Journal of Operational Risk 2011, together with N. Horbenko and T. Bae)
Award of the Stochastics Section of the DMV, for the best dissertation in stochastics in 2001/2002
Award of the City of Bayreuth, for the best dissertation at the University of Bayreuth 2001
