• since Oct 2018 retired
• 2018-1999 Director of the "Institute of Systems Optimization". Research interests are focused on Guidance, Navigation & Control of dynamic platforms for aerospace and automotive applications: GPS-, Laser- and vision aided inertial systems, deeply coupled GNSS/INS integration, SAR terrain aided navigation systems, vision aided indoor localization and guidance, cooperative autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAV) with image based tracking and geo-localization capabilities.
• Since 1999 university professor for electrical engineering at the "Karlsruhe Institute of Technology", formerly University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
• 2010 - 2004 Dean of the Department of "Electrical Engineering and Information Technology" at the "Karlsruhe Institute of Technology".
• 2004 - 2002 Vice Dean of the Department of "Electrical Engineering and Information Technology" at the "Karlsruhe Institute of Technology".
• 1997 director of the section "Flight Control Systems" with the departments Mechatronics, Electronics, Optronics, Navigation, Telemetry- and Testsystems.
• 1995 head of the department "Inertial- and Sensor Techniques"
• 1991 head of the department "Fibre Optic Gyros", focussing on passive FOG configurations.
• 1990 Dr.-Ing. habil., Technical University of Munich, Germany, in the field of optical waveguide optimization.
• 1987 development engineer at "European Aeronautic Defence and Space Agency EADS", formerly Messerschmidt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB) in the field of Laser- and Fibre Optic-Sensors.
• 1978 Dipl.-Ing., 1982 Dr. Ing., Technical University of Munich, Germany, in the field of VUV spectroscopy of plasma discharges.

• Fellow (FRIN) of the "Royal Institute of Navigation", UK.
• IEEE Senior Member.
• Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Journal “MDPI Sensors”
• Director of the International Scientific Laboratory "Integrated Navigation and Attitude Reference Systems", Russia
• 2017-2007 Conference Chairman of the international DGON conference “Inertial Sensors and Systems”.
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal "Gyroscopy and Navigation", Springer.
• Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the "Journal of Navigation", Royal Institute of Navigation, UK.
• Member of the International Program Committee of the “Saint Petersburg International Conference on Integrated Navigation Systems ICINS”, Russia.
• Vice Chair of the Section "Unmanned Aerial Systems" within the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DGLR)".
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the "German Institute of Navigation (DGON)".
• Head of the Commission "Inertial Sensors" within DGON.
• Elected Member of the "Academy of Navigation and Motion Control", Russia.

Academy of Navigation and Motion Control, Russia 
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), USA 
Deutscher Hochschulverband 
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- u. Raumfahrt (DGLR) 
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ortung und Navigation (DGON) 
Gesellschaft der Freunde des Botanischen Gartens München 
Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte 
Greenpeace 
IEEE Aerospace & Electronic Systems Society, USA 
Institute of Navigation (ION), USA 
KIT-Fördergesellschaft e.V. 
Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN), UK 
Sierra Club, USA