1981-1987 Studium der Physik Universität Heidelberg, 1988-1990 Promotionsstipendium und ein Jahr Assistentenzeit MPI für Kernphysik Heidelberg, 1991 Wechsel zu Leybold AG Hanau als Labor- und Kundenapplikationsleiter, ab 1993 Leiter Anlagenentwicklung ALD Vacuum Technologies GmbH Erlensee (früher Leybold Unternehmensbereich Metallurgie), ab 1998 Bereichsleiter Verfahrens- und Anlagenentwicklung, Verfahrensinbetriebnahme und Prototypenbau (in dieser Zeit 1997 „Toyota Price for Best Application“), begleitend 1998-2010 Beiratsmitglied ACCESS e.V.- Aninstitut des Gießereinstituts RWTH Aachen, 2004 Wechsel zu Firma SMS Elotherm Remscheid als Senior Vice President Engineering, seit 2012 bei Tenova LOI Thermprocess GmbH Essen als Technical Director LOI Group.

Tenova, a Techint Group company, is a worldwide partner for innovative, reliable solutions in the metals and mining industries. Leveraging a staff of more than three thousand forward-thinking employees across five continents, Tenova shares the long-standing principles of its industrial group and better understands its partners’ needs. The company works alongside client-partners to design and develop innovative technologies and services that improve their business both today and tomorrow, creating solutions that help mining and metals companies reduce costs, save energy, limit environmental impact and improve working conditions for their employees. Together, the people of Tenova share a strong sense of passion for their work. By channeling this passion through professional expertise, they’re able to anticipate trends and transformations within the industry, helping clients identify and take advantage of new opportunities the moment they’re available. Tenova has earned its position as one of the industry’s most trusted leaders by relying on a distinctive, four-pronged business approach characterized by: Innovation, developing solutions that consume less energy, produce less raw material waste, reduce costs and pollution, and increase overall facility efficiency; Reliability, providing innovative technologies for metals and mining that work well, and well into the future; Sustainability, carefully analyzing industrial processes in order to identify solutions that reduce energy consumption, improve facility efficiency, cut costs and limit environmental impact; and Safety, guaranteeing that every solution the company designs and implements makes the host workplace safer.