Biography
| Since Sep. 2006 | Professor in
Media Technology at  De Montfort
University | 
| Dec. 2004-Aug. 2006 | Oberassistent (Senior Assistant Professor) at the University of Konstanz | 
| Feb. 2004 | Habilitation (cumulative), University of Konstanz, Title: Efficient Algorithms for Source and Source-Channel Image Coding | 
| April 2002- Dec. 2004 | Wissenschaftlicher Assistent at the University of Konstanz | 
| March 2000- March 2002 | Wissenschaftlicher Assistent (Assistant Professor) at the University of Leipzig | 
| Oct. 1998-Feb. 2000 | Postdoc researcher at the University of Leipzig | 
| Nov. 1997- Sept. 1998 | Postdoc researcher at the University of Freiburg | 
| Sep. 1997 | Dr.rer.nat., University of Freiburg, Thesis: Encoding and Decoding Complexity Reduction and VQ Aspects of Fractal Image Compression, published by Shaker Verlag, Aachen 1998, Advisor: Prof. Dr. Dietmar Saupe | 
| Jan. 1994- Sep. 1997 | Doctoral studies, University of Freiburg | 
| Dec. 1993 | M.Sc. mathematics, University of Montreal, Thesis: Représentations graphiques relatives aux systèmes de fonctions itérées du plan (Graphical representations of iterated function systems of the plane), Advisor: Prof. Serge Dubuc | 
| Sep. 1991- Aug. 1993 | M.Sc. mathematics, University of Montreal | 
