Since 2021 Appointed Member of the Academic Committee of the Institute for AI International Governance (I-AIIG) of Tsinghua University

Since 2021 Appointed Member of the International Advisory Board of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Law & Society (CAILS) at GLA University, Mathura, India

Since 2020 Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo 

Since 2019 Director of the TUM Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence 

Since 2018 Member of the Scientific Board of the European Initiative AI4People

2018-20 Liaison Professor of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation

2016-17 Member of the Ethics Commission „Automated and Connected Driving“ at the Federal Ministry for Transport and Digital Infrastructure  

WS 2015/16 Visiting Professor in Taipei and Kyoto 

2015-18 Member of the Ethics Advisory Board of the European Medical Information Framework

Since 2010 Full Professor and Holder of the Peter Löscher Chair of Business Ethics at the Technical University of Munich

2010 Offer of a Chair for Social Philosophy and Business Ethics at the Technical University of Braunschweig (declined)

2008-2010 Acting Professor of Philosophy at Technical University of Braunschweig 

2007 Heisenberg Fellowship of the German Research Foundation

2007-2008 Acting Professor of Management, Business Ethics and Social Change at Witten-Herdecke University 

2005 Habilitation at LMU Munich in Philosophy; Thesis: „Normative Grundlagen moderner Gesellschaften unter Bedingungen der Globalisierung“

2003 Visiting Professor at Venice International University

1999-2007 Assistant Professor ("Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter/Assistent" at the Chair for Business Ethics of LMU Munich

1999 Dr. phil. (Grade: summa cum laude) at TU Braunschweig; Thesis: „Ökonomische Wissenschaftstheorie: der Beitrag der Ökonomik zu einer naturalistischen Wissenschaftstheorie“ (Referees: Prof. Gerhard Vollmer, Prof. Nicholas Rescher) 

1998 Visiting Scholar at University of California, San Diego (Prof. Philip Kitcher)

1997 Visiting Scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh (Prof. Nicholas Rescher)

1997-1999 Doctoral studies in philosophy at TU Berlin and TU Braunschweig

1996 Diploma (equivalent to M.Sc.) in Information Studies (Wirtschaftsinformatik) (Grade: Very good)

Magister (equivalent to M.A.) in Philosophy (Grade: With distinction)

1993-96 and 1997-99 Fellowship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation

1990-1996 Studies in Philosophy and Information Studies in Braunschweig, Göttingen and Paris

1989-1990 Military Service (1st Panzer Division)

1989 A-Levels at Gymnasium Anna-Sophianeum in Schöningen

1969 Born in Helmstedt/Lower Saxony