October 2002 - December 2007

Member of the research staff at the Institute for Pattern Recognition.  Research projects:

- 2002 - 2004:   PF-STAR

- 2004 - 2007:   SmartWeb

- Since 2004 member of the  HUMAINE Network of Excellence

September 2002

Diploma degree

October 1996 - September 2002

Studies of computer science at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg

- Main subjects: Pattern Recognition, Computer Graphics, Programming Languages and Methodologies, Mathematics

- Student thesis:   Optimization of the Feature Extraction for Automatic Speech Processing

- Diploma thesis: Semicontinous HMM with Multiple Codebooks

1999/2000

Exchange at the University of Bath, England

1995

Abitur at the Erasmus-Gymnasium in Amberg