Following my postdoctoral research in chemistry, I spent three decades in industry across R&D at BASF, strategy consulting at Kearney, and executive roles at GEA. My work at GEA focused on corporate development, intellectual property, innovation management, and technology foresight. In addition, I served as Managing Director of several GEA subsidiaries and helped building GEA’s biotechnology activities in the emerging field of New Food.

I am interested in how computational methods like artificial intelligence are transforming the knowledge generation and practice of science. I am especially interested in the biosciences, where high system complexity meets comparatively well-characterized underlying principles. Thus, AI and quantitative modeling should have a comprehensive impact on computer-driven discovery here.

In my role as Scientific Coordinator at IQCB, I contribute to bridging the life sciences with neighboring disciplines and computer science, ultimately driving a more predictive, systems-oriented approach to medicine.

Positions held

Since 2026
Scientific Coordinator, IQCB, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

2004–2022
Managing Director of four GmbH and two AG subsidiaries of GEA Group, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf

2019–2021
Technology Foresight, GEA Group, Düsseldorf

2017-2019
Innovation Coordinator, GEA Group Technology Centers, Düsseldorf

2010-2017
Head Intellectual Property and Innovation Management, GEA Group, Bochum

2001-2009
Corporate Development, GEA Group / mg technologies, Frankfurt

1996-2001
Head Business Development, Phenolchemie, Gladbeck

1993-1996
Management Consultant, Kearney, München

1992-1993
R&D Team Leader, Blue Sky Chemistry, Hauptlabor BASF, Ludwigshafen

Education

1992
Postdoc, Organic Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley

1990
Dr. rer. nat. in Chemistry, University Erlangen-Nürnberg