Curriculum vitae

• Studied Geography, Economic Geography and History at the RWTH Aachen University
• until 1994 Research associate at the Albertus-Magnus University Cologne
• 1994 PhD at the RWTH Aachen University
• 1997 Second state examination for the subject secondary level II
• 1998-2000 Employee at the Geographical Institute of the RWTH Aachen University
• 2000-2001 University lecturer for Topography and Topographic Cartography at the Institute for Cartography of the TU Dresden University
• 2001-2007 Senior Lecturer, Institute of Geography at the University of Göttingen
• 2003 Habilitation and venia legendi in “Geography” (postdoctoral qualification) at the University of Göttingen
• WS 2005/06 Substitute chair at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
• SS 2006 und WS 2006/07 Stand-in professor, Institute of Geography, RWTH Aachen University
• since March 2007 Full professor for Cartography, Faculty of Geoscience, Institute of Geography, Ruhr University Bochum

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