Tasks in academic self-administration
2006 to 2010 Vice-Dean of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
2006 to 2010 Member of the Council for Research and Promotion of Young Scientists (CRYS) at KIT
2012 to 2014 Dean of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
2005 to 2022 Mentor for students of the German National Academic Foundation Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
2009 until today: Chairman of the Students Hostels of the Karlsruher Institute of Technologie (KIT) e.V.
2021 until today: member of the KIT Academy for Responsible Research, Teaching, and Innovation (ARRTI)
Tasks as Consultant and Expert (Selection)
2000 Evaluation of the new building for the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt, under the authority of the Wissenschaftsrat
2006 Evaluation of the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in Dortmund, under the authority of the Wissenschaftsrat
2009 Evaluation of Aalto University (formerly Helsinki University of Technology)
2006 to 2012 Member of the Medical Committee of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research BMBF
2012 Participation in the National Strategy Process of Medical Technology by BMBF, BMWI and BMG
2020 Accreditation of the courses of studies „Biomedical Engineering“ (Bachelor and Master) at TU Ilmenau
2021 Evaluation of the Department of Computer Science & Biomedical Engineering, Graz University of Technology
Honorary Posts and Fellowships
• Emeritus at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• Member of Berlin-Brandenburgische Academy of Science and the acatech
• ao Member of the North-Rhine Westphalia Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Member of the advisory board of Physikalisch Technischen Bundesanstalt (PTB) until 2022
• Editor-in-Chief of the journal Biomedizinische Technik - Biomedical Engineering
• Chairman of the awards comittee of the Klee Family Foundation
• Member on the board of the Schroff Foundation
• Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing
• Member of the advisory board of the German Society for Biomedical Engineering DGBMT in VDE
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of CIBER-bbn (Spain)
• Member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee of the Hartstichting (Niederlande)
• Fellow of the International Union for Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine (IUPESM)
• Fellow of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE)
• Fellow der European Alliance of Medical and Biological Engineering and Science (EAMBES)
• Fellow of the German Society for Biomedical Engineering DGBMT in VDE
• Member of the Board of Directors of the Conference „Computing in Cardiology“
Memberships
• Member of the German Society for Biomedical Technology DGBMT in the VDE
• Member of the German Society of Medical Physics DGMP
• Member of the German Physics Society DPG
• Member of the German Society of Cardiology - Heart and Circulatory Research (DGK)