As Principal Functional Safety and Cybersecurity Consultant , he is working in team of technology specialists at exida.com GmbH and consults leading companies to implement functional safety and cybersecurity related systems primarily in the area of Automotive. This includes development of concepts, trainings, audits, and assessments. He is member of the Member of Technical Program Committee of DVCON (Design & Verification Conferences) Europe since 2015. Further he represents exida.com GmbH in the Road Vehicles – Cybersecurity Engineering ISO/SAE 21434 and in the ISO PAS 5112 development.
He studied Physics at the University of Freiburg and started his career 1993.
He worked at the Institute for Broadcasting Technology Ltd, BetaResearch GmbH, IDT International Digital Technologies Germany GmbH, Motorola Inc., Freescale Inc., Elektrobit, NXP Semiconductors and joined exida.com GmbH in 2018. During this career he worked
several years on SW and algorithm development, Image and Video Processing, SoC Modeling, SoC Verification, formal verification of functional safety and cybersecurity features, led the verification of Functional Safety and Security microcontrollers and was the Functional Safety Manager for automotive microcontrollers.