Work Positions

1978 – 1982	Postdoctoral Research Associate in the project HAM-RPM at the University of Hamburg (Principal Investigator: Prof. W. v.Hahn)
1982 – 1993	Project Leader and Principal Investigator of the project HAM-ANS at the University of Hamburg
1982	Tenured Associate Professor of Computer Science at Saarland University, Saarbrücken
1984	Full Professorship at the University of Karlsruhe offered, declined
1985	Full Professorship at the University of Hamburg offered, declined
1985 – 2018	Tenured Full Professor of Computer Science at Saarland University, Chair of Artificial Intelligence, Saarbrücken
1985 – 1995	Member of the Executive Board of the Collaborative Research Center (SFB 314) “Artificial Intelligence Knowledge-based Systems” of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
1987	Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley and first visitor of the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Berkeley
1988 – present	Scientific Director of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) in Saarbrücken
1992 – 2000	Member of the Executive Board of the Post-Graduate College on Cognitive Science of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
1993 – 2000	Scientific Director and Principal Investigator of the Verbmobil Project on speech-to-speech translation
1996 – present	Director and CEO of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) in Saarbrücken and Kaiserslautern
1996 – 2007	Member of the Executive Board of the Collaborative Research Center (SFB 378) “Resource-adaptive Cognitive Processes” of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
1999 – 2003	Scientific Director and Principal Investigator of the SmartKom Project Consortium on intelligent multimodal dialog systems
2000 – 2018	Joint Appointment as a Professor in the Department of Computational Linguistics at Saarland University, Saarbrücken
2001 – 2007	Member of the Executive Board of the International Post-Graduate College in Language Technology and Cognitive Systems as a cooperation between Saarland University (Departments of Computational Linguistics, Phonetics, and Computer Science) and the University of Edinburgh (School of Informatics) of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2004 – present	Scientific Director of the SmartWeb Consortium on mobile multimodal access to semantic web services
2007 – present	Member of the Board of the Cluster of Excellence on Multimodal Computing and Interaction, Saarbrücken, Germany
2009 – present	German Academic Representative on the Executive Steering Board of the European Institute for Innovation and Technology (EIT) ICT Labs, Brussels, Belgium
2009 – present	Member of the Strategy Board of the Leading-Edge Cluster Software Innovations for Digital Enterprises