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Born in Aschaffenburg, Germany |
| 1957-1961 |
Education in physics at the University of Würzburg. |
| 1961-1962 |
Diploma thesis at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. Investigation of the efficiency
of the spark chamber, a nuclear imaging device. |
| 1963 |
Diploma in physics, University of Würzburg, Germany |
| 1963 |
Scientific staff member of DESY, the
German National Research Center for Elementary Particle Physics in Hamburg.
Group leader responsible for the development of a hardware and software
system for the computer assisted analysis of spark chamber pictures. |
| 1967 |
Ph.D. in physics, University of Hamburg. |
| 1968 |
Group leader for medical data processing at DESY. |
| 1974 |
Habilitation in medical informatics at the University of
Hamburg. |
| 1978 |
Full professor of medical computer science and director of the Department
of Medical Computer Science at the University of Hamburg. |
| 1985 |
Half year sabbatical at the IBM Scientific Center Palo Alto, California
and visiting professor at the University of California at San Francisco. |
| 1990/1991 |
Half year sabbatical at the IBM Scientific Center Palo Alto, California
and visiting professor at the University of California at San Francisco. |
| 1995 |
Half year sabbatical as Visiting Professor at the
Surgical Planning Lab of the Harvard Medical School, Boston. |
| 2001 |
Appointment as Advisory Professor at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
2-4/2003
|
Visiting professor at the Department of Systems Science,
Graduate School of Informatics
Kyoto University, Japan |
| since 10/2003 |
Professor emeritus
Cooperator of the VOXEL-MAN
group |