Received his diploma degree in engineering-informatics in 2006 from the University Lüneburg working on efficient embedded network protocol stacks and a master’s degree in computer science in 2009 from the Leibniz University Hannover researching misbehaviour detection for resilient Ad-Hoc networks. In 2015 he received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from TU Braunschweig working on Delay Tolerant Networking systems for smart city and smart farming applications. Since 2015 he works in the corporate research and advance engineering division at Robert Bosch GmbH.