Head of Chair

• Board member of University council of the Deggendorf Institute of Technology
• Board member of Faculty council Physics and Astronomy of the JMU Würzburg (2013-2015)
• Member of Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (German Physical Society) (DPG)
• Board member of trustees of the Röntgen Memorial Site Würzburg
• Board member of advisory board of Deutsche Gesellschaft für zerstörungsfreie Prüfung (German Society for Nondestructive Testing) DGZfP

Member of the Advisory Board
-   Expert Committee Radiographic Testing
-   Expert Committee Computer Tomography and Imaging in Radiographic Testing

• since 2016:Honorary Professor of non-destructive testing for material characterization, University of Saarland
• since 2015 Managing Director, Fraunhofer Institute for Nondestructive Testing IZFP, Saarbrücken
• 2013 - 2015: Provisional Director, Fraunhofer Institute for Nondestructive Testing IZFP, Saarbrücken
• since 2013: Head of Division of the Fraunhofer Development Center for Xray Technology EZRT, Fürth, a division of the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS
• seit 2010: stellvertretender Institutsleiter des Fraunhofer-Instituts für Integrierte Schaltungen IIS in Erlangen
• since 2010: University Professor, Chair of X-Ray Microscopy, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, JMU Würzburg
• 2010 - 2013: Head of the Fraunhofer Project Group NanoCT Systems in Würzburg
• 2005 - 2013: Development of the Fraunhofer IIS location Fürth into an autonomous division of the institute at Fürth
• 2002-2004: MBA Studies, NIMBAS Graduate School of Management, Bradford University School of Management, degree EMBA
• 1997-2010: Head of Division of the Fraunhofer Development Center for XRay Technology EZRT, a cooperative department of Fraunhofer IIS, Erlangen and Fraunhofer IZFP, Saarbrücken
• 1993-1996: External doctorate at the Institute for Electronics Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Prof. Dr. D. Seitze
• 1992-1996: Head of the Group “X-ray Image Processing” of Fraunhofer IIS
• 1989-1992: Research Associate at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS in Erlangen, development of a work group for X-ray image processing
• 1982-1988: Studies of physics at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen Nürnberg (FAU), degree: graduated physicist
• 1979-1980:Employment as machinist at Siemens, temporarily taxi driver in Erlangen

• 2008: Max Grundig Memorial Award, for research of new materials and processes
• 2001: Joseph von Fraunhofer Award for „ISAR“ (Intelligent System for Automatic X-Ray Inspection)

• Professor of the Chair for X-ray Microscopy at the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
• Supervision of habilitation, doctoral, master and bachelor theses
• Realization of various lectures, examinations and seminars for bachelor and master studies at the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, JMU Würzburg
• Board member of Faculty council Physics and Astronomy of the JMU Würzburg (2013-2015)
• Realization of various DFG projects
• Work group “Röntgen Exhibition” of the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, JMU Würzburg 
• Consultant for
  - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Science Foundation) DFG
  - Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF
• Reviewer for
  - Journal for NDT & E International
  - International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology
  - Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology (JXST)
  - Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research,
• Research cooperation with the
  -          Chair for Functional Materials, Uni Saarland, Prof. Mücklich, active involvement in
             preparations for a new SFB, planning of a mutual DFG application for the large-scale
             equipment initiative „X-Ray radiographical high-throughput screening  for material
             Development"
  -          ESRF European Synchrotron Radiation Facility Grenoble
  -          BESSY II BAM Beamline Berlin
  -          University of Applied Science Upper Austria Wels, Prof. J. Kastner