Education

• Master's Degree in Nuclear Physics, University of Muenster, Germany, 1985
• Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics, University of Muenster, Germany, 2/1990

Employment

• Senior Physicist at Brookhaven National Lab, 2016-present
• Physicist at Brookhaven National Lab, 2000-2016
• Associate Physicist at Brookhaven National Lab, 1996-2000
• Staff Scientist at the Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforsching (GSI) Darmstadt, Germany (stationed at CERN) 1991-1996
• University of Muenster, Germany, 1985-1991

Research and other Activities

• Member of the PHENIX Collaboration
• DAQ coordinator of the PHENIX experiment
• Part-time contributor to the BNL-Stony Brook RatCAP project
• Member of the CERN WA98 Collaboration and the RD51 Collaboration.
• Long-term member and current chairman of the BNL Cyber Security Advisory Council
• Senior Member of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma sciences Society
• Past chair of the IEEE "Computer Applications in Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Committee" (CANPS)
• Associate Editor for the IEEE "Transactions on Nuclear Science" (TNS)
• Distinguished Lecturer in the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Chapter of the IEEE