is the new director of IAD since winter term 2005 / 2006. He studied electrical and automatic control engineering at Darmstadt University of Technology, and was research associate at the Institute of Ergonomics at TU Darmstadt from 1988 to 1996. He received his doctor's degree at IAD with a dissertation on applications of artificial intelligence in ergonomics in 1992.
Since 1992 he is engaged in self-employed projects with partners from industrial and administrative sectors, and from 1996 on he is university professor for ergonomics in design at the University of Essen and head of the Institute for Ergonomics and Design Research that was founded by him. In April 2002 he was the first president of the design school zollverein, and from November 2004 on he headed the renamed Zollverein School of Management and Design as president and managing director.
Room L1|01 510
Phone: + 49 6151 16-2987
Fax: + 49 6151 16-2798
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iad.tu-darmstadt.de