University:
Studies of physics and economics at the University of Göttingen (1968 - 1973)

Doctoral studies:
Physics and geophysics at the University of Göttingen (1973 - 1977)
1977 doctoral degree

Career:

Jul. 1977 - Feb. 1978	Postdoctoral trainee at the Institute for Geophysics, University of Göttingen
Mar. 1978 – Feb. 1983	Chief of the EEG computer laboratory at the Children's Hospital, University of Kiel.
Since Mar. 1983	Staff scientist at the DLR-Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Cologne.
Aug. 1987 - Jul. 1988	Exchange scientist at Armstrong Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory, US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio (NRC Associateship), Brain Electrical Activity Mapping and psychomotor performance.
Sep. 1997 - Feb. 1998	Exchange scientist at the DERA Centre for Human Sciences, Farnborough, UK, Development and validation of computer models for the prediction of fatigue in pilots.