Professor of Bioinformatics and later Digital Forensics at Mittweida University of Applied Sciences, where he founded Germany’s first Bachelor’s degree program in “General and Digital Forensics” in 2014. He is head of the university’s FoSIL (Forensic Science Investigation Lab) research group, which deals with a wide range of forensic issues. Coauthor of 8 books and more than 700 publications in the field of bioinformatics and forensics. Research areas: structure-based systems biology, analysis of biological traces, knowledge-based systems as support for digital forensics and resilience. He also works as an expert witness in court and as a consultant for the police and the public prosecutor’s office. In addition to his professorship at Mittweida University of Applied Sciences, he is a lecturer at Fresenius University of Applied Sciences and BTU Cottbus. He is a member of the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics – FKIE and head of the Fraunhofer Cyber Security Learning Lab at Mittweida University of Applied Sciences. As an expert, he is a regular speaker at international conferences and specialist committees.