Professor at the University of Luxembourg since February 2002
Vice Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) at the University of Luxembourg 2009-2016
Member of the Information and Communication Security Panel ICS of NATO (2007-2011)
Coordinator of three European projects, therein the Integrated Project u-2010 on Next Generation Networks for Crisis Management 2006 - 2009
Member of the European Security Research Advisory Board (ESRAB) 04/2005 - 12/2006, European Commission, Brussels
Member of the European Security Taskforce (SecureIST), 2004 - 2007, European Commission, Brussels
Member the Management Committee and Scientific Committee, later director of LIASIT, 2004 - 2009
Appointed professor at the Institut Superieur de Technologie (IST) Luxembourg 2002, from 2003 University of Luxembourg
Co-initiator (together with Lucien Thiel, ABBL) and project coordinator of a project to establish a National Public-Key-Infrastructure LuxTrust 1998 - 2002
Co-founder and vice director of the Institute for Telematics, Trier (Fraunhofer Management), 1996-2003 at that time co-responsible for scientific orientation, definition, acquisition and realization of the research projects applied, industry funded research at the intersection of computer science and telecommunication
Ph.D. in Natural Sciences, University of Saarbrücken, 1995
Diploma in Physics, University of Saarbrücken in 1992