• 1942 born in Berlin
• 1962 Abitur
• 1964 to 1971 Studies of Electrical Engineering (focus on Telecommunications) at the universities of technology in Hanover and Berlin
• 1971 to 1975 scientific assistant at the research institute of AEG-Telefunken (today Daimler Benz) in Ulm, field of study: electronic speech signal processing
• 1975 doctoral studies as external doctoral candidate at the TU Berlin with a thesis on speech coding methods
• 1975 to 1977 Senior Engineer at the Chair of Telecommunications at the University of Dortmund
• 1977 appointment as professor at the TU Berlin, chair of digital transmission technology
• 1994 Appointed to the Chair of Communication Technology at BTU Cottbus; field of study: Narrowband and broadband communication, methods and applications of electronic speech signal processing, electronic communication aids for the disabled, multimedia communication
• 2001 Elected dean of the Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Business Administration and Engineering faculty

• Supervisor of 16 dissertations as first supervisor, another 15 dissertations as second supervisor as well as a habilitation

• Methods and applications of electronic speech signal processing
• Auditory measurement methods for speech signals
• Applications of speech technology for blind and deaf people
• Human-machine communication
• Teleteaching/Telelearning
• Staff Member of the BmFT research project "Speech Processing" (SPICOS)
• Scientific project manager in the BmFT joint research project VESPRA
• Project leader in the BmA research project "Disabled Communication Systems
• Project partner in the EC projects TIDE-GUIB and ONOMASTICA
• Project leader in the BMBF project "E-Learning-Modules
• numerous other research projects; funded by DFG and TU Berlin

see also research profile

Approx. 100 publications; author or editor of twelve monographs focusing on the following topics:

• Speech processing
• telematic services
• electronic communication aids for the disabled

see also publications

• Organizer of several international and national conferences on electronic speech signal processing; General Chairman of the international conference EUROSPEECH '93
• Expert reviewer in the EC projects ESPRIT (Speech Processing Project SPIN) and TIDE; Expert in the European project COST 219 (Future Communication Aids for Disabled People)
• Member of ten appointment committees of the TU Dresden