Career
| 1990 | Abitur (german equivalent of A-levels) at the at the Gymnnasium Johanneum in Lingen (Ems) |
| 1990 - 1996 | Studies of Computer Science in Civil Engineering at the University of Hannover |
| 1996 | Diploma "Modellierung von hierarchischen Graphensystemen" |
| 1997 - 1999 | Doctoral Fellowship of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung |
| 2000 - 2005 | Senior Researcher at the Institute of Computer Science in Civil Engineering of the University of Hannover |
| 2003 | Dissertation " Modellbildung und Simulation von Autobahnverkehr" passed with distinction |
| seit 2005 | Assistant at the Hessian State Office "Straßen- und Verkehrswesen" |