Education and Degrees

Venia docendi (Habilitation) in Geographic Information Science (Geoinformationswesen), Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna), Austria, 29 June 1995

Dr. sc. techn., ETH Zurich (Advisors: Rudolf Conzett†, Alessandro Carosio, Hans-Peter Frei), 29 May 1982

Dipl. Verm. Ing., ETH Zurich (Diploma in Surveying Engineering), 30 April 1982

Additional Qualifications

Special Summer Program in Abstraction and Specification, John Guttag and Barbara Liskov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), June 1985

Certificat de Hautes Etudes de Lettres et Civilisation Françaises, Centre Universitaire d’Avignon, 6 August 1980

General studies in law, journalism, and languages, University of Zürich, October 1978 to February 1979

Positions Held

Professor (C4), Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster, November 2003 to present

Associate Professor (C3), Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster, September 1996 to November 2003

Lecturer (Dozent), Department of Geoinformation, Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna), Austria, June 1995 to present

Research Associate, Department of Geoinformation, Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna), Austria, August 1991 to August 1996

Adjunct Professor, Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering, University of Maine, USA, August 1991 to 1998

Post-doctoral Research Associate and Cooperating Assistant Professor, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) and Department of Surveying Engineering, University of Maine, June 1989 to July 1991

Research and Teaching Assistant, Prof. R. Conzett and Prof. Dr. A. Carosio, Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, ETH Zürich, May 1982 to July 1984 and October 1985 to May 1989.

Visiting Positions

Visiting Scientist and Theme Leader, British National e-Science Center, Edinburgh, January 2007 to February 2008 (part time)

Visiting Scientist, Meaning and Computation Laboratory (Prof. Joseph Goguen), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California at San Diego, October 2002 to April 2003