Founder of Accipio Consulting
Born 1957 in Rheydt, Germany
Professional Experience
2004 Formation of Accipio Consulting
2002 Technical manager of plettac electronics GmbH, Fuerth
1999 CTO of Philips Speech Processing, Vienna – Aachen – Dallas
1994 Manager of the Man-Machine Interfaces research group, Philips Research Labs, Germany
1986 Researcher and project manager, automatic speech recognition for large vocabulary, Philips Research Labs Hamburg and Aachen, Germany
Bodies
Board Member and Vice President ELRA (European Language Resources Association) 1998-2004
Vice Chairman of the Germany section of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) 1999-2001
Education
1985 Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.) at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Goettingen, with a thesis in complex analysis
1984 Academic year at the Université de Nice (France)
Boursier du Gouvernement Français (scholarship of the French government)
1977 Study of mathematics with a minor in theoretical physics at the University of Goettingen, Dipl.-Math.
Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation