Academic Vita:

• Professor for Electronic Business at the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg, since 2003
• Habilitation (Dr. habil.) on electronic markets and automated negotiations at the University of Hamburg, Institute for Business Information Systems, in 2001
• Habilitation scholarship from the DFG 2000-2001
• 1st prize at the "3. Meistersingertreffen" in Bayreuth (Habilitation prize from the WKWI) 1999
• Dissertation (Dr. rer. pol.) on evolutionary game theory at the University of Hamburg, Institute for Allocation and Competition, in 1997
• Degree in Economics (Dipl. Volkswirt) at the University of Hamburg in 1996
• Degree in Technical Computer Science (Dipl. Ing. Inform.) at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg in 1990 (former Fachhochschule Hamburg).
• High School Leaving Certificate (Abitur) in 1986

Industrial experience:

• 10 years' experience in the computer industry
  • Head of software development at moving-objects GmbH, Hamburg
  • Lead developer of a Java EE application framework at WMD GmbH, Hamburg
  • Consulting of a major german retailer in the field of e-commerce, BPR and Content-Management
  • Software architect of an object-oriented 4GL-Tool at WMD GmbH, Hamburg
  • Conception and development of an interactive TV-game for the german TV-channel NDR3 (nightly broadcasted for some years)
  • Software Developer of graphical components for a laboratory system of the environmental office of Hamburg
• Author of numerous commercial software products, both computer applications and games (see publications)