Online Profiles
Certifications
- PRINCE2 Foundation
- ITIL Foundation
- Scrum Master
- Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) nach ISO/IEC 27001/27002 und BSI IT-Grundschutz
Professional Experience
since 2020 Chief Information Officer
Employer: German Federal State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Main Responsibilities:
- Head of IT Division
- IT Governance and Coordination of Finances
- Overall Guidance in Terms of IT Strategy, Project Management, Information Security, Digitization, and Science
- Program Coordination and Project Steering
since 2016 Visiting Professor
Institution: University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
Main Responsibilities:
- Research in Visualization and Human-computer Interaction
- Acquisition and Supervision of Research Projects
- Planning, Performing, and Evaluation of Teaching
- Supervision of Doctoral Candidates and Students
- Work in University and External Bodies
2018 - 2020 Head of IT Department
Employer: German Federal State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Main Responsibilities:
- Head of IT Department
- IT Governance and Coordination of Finances
- Guidance in Terms of IT Strategy, Project Management, Information Security, Digitization, and Science
- Program Coordination and Project Steering
2016 - 2018 IT Project Manager
Employer: German Federal State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Main Responsibilities:
- Management of Statewide IT Projects
- Planning, Moderation, and Evaluation of Workshops and Meetings
- Guidance in Terms of IT Strategy, Project Management, and Science
2010 - 2016 Assistant Professor
Institution: Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany
Main Responsibilities:
- Research in Visualization and Human-computer Interaction
- Acquisition and Supervision of new Cooperations and Research Projects
- Main Contact for Industry Partners
- Planning, Performing, and Evaluation of Teaching
- Supervision of Doctoral Candidates and Students
- Work in University and External Bodies
- Organization of Workshops and Cooperation Symposia
- Management of Budget and Personnel
Education
2005 - 2009 Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science
Title of Thesis | Direct Surface Extraction from Unstructured Point-based Volume Data |
Committee | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Linsen Prof. Dr. Stephan Rosswog Prof. Dr.-Ing. Horst K. Hahn Prof. Dr. Daniel Weißkopf |
Areas of Research | Geometry-based Visualization, Computer Graphics |
Overall Grade | “with special distinction” |
Institution | Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany |
2000 - 2005 Diploma in Mathematics
Title of Thesis | Spezielle symplektische Zusammenhänge (Special Symplectic Connections) |
Committee | PD Dr. Lutz Habermann PD Dr. Katharina Habermann |
Areas of Education | Computer Science, Numerics, Differential Geometry |
Overall Grade | 1.0 (with special distinction) |
Institution | University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany |
Supervision
Supervised PhD Theses
2024
- Christoph Schmidt, “Characterizing Annotations for Visual Analytics on Clinical Data”
2019
- Walentin Heft, “Interaktive und nutzerzentrierte Visualisierung von ergonomischen Daten für die intuitive Evaluierung komplexer Arbeitsprozesse”
Supervised Master's Theses
2024
- Nico Blasek, “Voicebots und Chatbots als Service Interface Technologies: Konzeptentwicklung und Lösungsarchitektur”
2018
- Wolfgang Neske, “Projektmanagement im Umfeld von Behörden und Organisationen mit Sicherheitsaufgaben”
2016
- Erik Herrmann, “GPU-unterstützte Verarbeitung von LiDAR Punktwolken zur Erkennung statischer Hindernisse”
- Dirk Hönisch, “Entfernung von Punkten dynamischer Objekte aus 3D-Punktwolken eines im Straßenverkehr bewegten LiDAR-Sensors”
- Fabian Bolte, “Intuitive Visualisierung universitätsinterner Publikationsdaten zur Unterstützung von Entscheidungsprozessen”
- Martin Ivo Hennig, “Semiautomatische Vorverarbeitung von skalaren Volumendaten zur intuitiven Visualisierung mittels Direct Volume Rendering”
- Lukas Jürschick, “GPU-basierte blickwinkelabhängige Rekonstruktion von dreidimensionalen Punktwolken”
- Falk Süß, “GPU-basierte Lichtstreuungsberechnung für interaktives Rendering von Bühnenpräsentationen”
- Martin Schulze, “GPU-based Higher-order Volume Ray Casting of SPH Data”
- Christian Günther, “Evaluation of Anti-aliasing Techniques for Render Pipelines with Order-independent Transparency”
2015
- Lars Lehmann, “Geometrie-basierte Visualisierung von OCT-Daten” (Winner of the University Price of Chemnitz University of Technology)
2014
- Linda Pfeiffer, “Entwicklung und Evaluation von interaktiven Systemen zur Unterstützung des kulturellen und sozialen Erlebens im musealen Kontext” (Winner of the Eleonore-Dießner-Price of Chemnitz University of Technology)
- Maria Barlag, “A Visual Approach for Efficient Ad-hoc Airline Operation Management”
Supervised Bachelor's Theses
2016
- Florian Oehme, “Evaluierung und Design einer intuitiven Nutzerschnittstelle fur die Visualisierung von Motorkennfeldern mittels jBEAM”
- Michelle Meinhardt Martinussen, “Evaluation of Different Weather Visualization Approaches for the Support of En-route Air Traffic Controllers”
- Diana Schif, “Entwicklung eines Visualisierungstools für Nahfeldsensordaten an Fahrzeugen”
- Tabea Sims, “Comparing Different Altitude-Visualization Techniques in the Context of Air Traffic Control”
2015
- Edith Kegel, “Visualisierung von ergonomischen Daten am Beispiel von RULA”
- Thomas Schröder, “Behandlung von unvollständigen Werten in Scagnostics”
- Kay Arnold, “Beschleunigung von Punktwolkenrendering durch Contour-Octrees”
2013
- Martin Schulze, “A Hierarchical Structure for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Simulation Data”
- Lukas Jürschick, “Segmentierung des Spinalkanals unter Benutzung Statistical Shape Models aus MRT-Daten und Implementierung in MeVisLab”
- Falk Süß, “Automatische Nachbearbeitung von registrierten Punktwolken aus 3D-Scans unter Berücksichtigung geometrischer und temporaler Randbedingungen”
- Christian Günther, “Interactive Rendering of Point Clouds on General Purpose Graphics Processing Units Using OpenCL”
- Thomas Seltmann, “Aspekte musealer Kontextualisierung von Empfehlungssystemen”
Co-supervised Theses
- Sherin Al-Shbat, “Decoupling Mesh and Data Representation for Geo-spatial Data Visualization”, PhD Thesis, 2012
- Helge Ülo Dinkelbach, “Schnelle Simulierung Neuronaler Netze auf Grafikkarten”, Master’s Thesis, 2011