Education
- 1984
- Dr.rer.nat (Ph.D in science) - University of Cologne/Germany
- 1980
- Diploma in physics - University of Cologne/Germany
Job
- 2020-30.06.2022
- Associate Professor, Economics Faculty, Management Department, People Friendship University of Russia (RUDN), Moscow
- 2017-present
- Co-founder, co-owner, and (since June 2018) general-director of InterKulturForum GmbH, Gattikon/Switzerland
- 01.06.2018
- Regular retirement from IBM Research at the age of 62 years
- 2014-2018
- Research Staff Member, Cloud and Computing Infrastructure Department,IBM Research, Rüschlikon/Switzerland
- 2002-2014
- Research Staff Member, Systems Department
- 2000-2002
- Manager Transport Network Technology, Communication Systems Department
- 1997-2000
- Manager High-Speed Adapters, Communication Systems Department
- 1992-1997
- Manager VLSI Design, Communications Systems Department
- 1991-1992
- Manager Laser Characterization and Modeling, Optoelectronics Department
- 1985-1990
- Development of a contactless testing method for very high speed VLSI circuits
- 1985
- I joined IBM at the Zurich Research Laboratory in Switzerland
- 1984-1985
- Research Staff Member at Institute of Solid State Research of Forschungszentrum Jülich in Jülich/Germany
Awards
- 2010
- IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award : for Galaxy-2 Chip Contributions
- 2004
- IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award : for Karachi SONET/SDH Framer
- 1999
- IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award : for SMART: Scalable SONET/SDH Framer
- 1981
- Max-Auwärter Award for surface science
Professional Activities
- Nov. 1991 - Apr. 1993
- Vice chairman of the Waveguide Components Working Group of the COST-240 project Modeling and Measuring Advanced Photonic Telecommunication Components
- Apr. 1990 - Nov. 1991
- member of the working group 1 (waveguide modeling) of the COST-216 project
- Oct. 1988 - Jan. 1992
- member of the Contactless Testing Committee of the ITG
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