June 12, 1967 Born in Berlin, Germany 1973-1977 Brüder-Grimm-Grundschule in Bielefeld-Sennestadt 1977-1986 Hans-Ehrenberg Gymnasium in Bielefeld-Sennestadt 1986 European Champion in Minigolf 1986-1987 Sportkompanie der Bundeswehr 1988-1994 Student of computer science and mathematics at the Technische Universität Berlin 1994 Diploma-Thesis Institutions of Partially Ordered Sets since 1994 Reasearch assistant in the group of Martin Grötschel at ZIB . (Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin) 2000 PhD Thesis DImensioning Survivable Capacitated NETworks since 2000 Founder of the ZIB spin-off atesio GmbH