„Habilitation“, Business Administration (esp. Information Systems) and Statistics, January 2010
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
PhD,July 2003
Research focus on Statistics/Information Systems
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
Diplom, Business Administration, May 2000
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
MA, Economics, May 1999
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
Principal Data Scientist,October 2018 – Present
GfK SE, Nürnberg, Germany
Senior Data Scientist,February 2017 – September 2018
GfK SE, Nürnberg, Germany
Adjunct Professor,February 2017 – Present
Chair of Statistics and Econometrics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
Assistant Professor,July 2007 – January 2017
Chair of Statistics and Econometrics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
Researcher and Consultant,October 2007 – August 2009
imbus AG, Möhrendorf, Germany
Project „TestBalance“; additional partners: SAP Research, Darmstadt, T-Mobile, Münster, Fraunhofer Institut Experimentelles Software Engineering, Kaiserslautern, and Fraunhofer Institut Techno- und Wirtschaftsmathematik, Kaiserslautern
Researcher,July 2007 – June 2009
Project „Classifying software faults to improve fault detection effectiveness“; partners: Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA, Pasadena, USA, and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Assistant Research Professor,September 2006 – June 2007
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Postdoctoral Research Associate,July 2004 – August 2006
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Researcher,Jan. 2001 – Feb. 2003
Project PETS (Prediction of software Error rates based on Test and Software maturity results), funded by the European Union; industrial partners: imbus AG, Möhrendorf, AS Aprote, Tartu, Estonia, Procedimientos-Uno, Málaga, Spain, and Acron Communications, Prague, Czech Republic
Researcher and Consultant,June 2000 – December 2000
imbus AG, Möhrendorf, Germany
Development of approaches for predicting software failures during systematic testing
Researcher and Lecturer,June 2000 – June 2004
Chair of Statistics and Econometrics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
Intern,Sept. 1999 – Oct. 1999
imbus GmbH, Möhrendorf, Germany
Evaluation of models and tools for software reliability prediction
Intern,May 1999 – Aug. 1999
Department of Information Systems, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
and COI GmbH, Herzogenaurach, Germany
Design and implementation of a Java applet for modeling and simulating business processes
Intern,Feb 1998 – Aug. 1998
mediaWays GmbH, Gütersloh, Germany
Design and implementation of an online monitoring system for network traffic data
Test-of-Time Award, 50th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks for the following 2010 paper: M. Grottke, A. P. Nikora, and K. S. Trivedi. An empirical investigation of fault types in space mission system software. In Proc. 40th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, pages 447-456, 2010, July 2020.
Fellowship awarded by the Dr. Theo und Friedl Schöller Research Center for Business and Society, Nürnberg, May 2011
Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) Fellow, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, August 2006 – May 2007
Fellowship within the Postdoc-Program of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for appointment as a Research Associate at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, July 2004 – June 2006
Promotional Award for Science of the State Bank of Bavaria (Bayerische Landesbank), Munich, awarded for the dissertation, Feb. 2004
Ph.D. award of the Hermann Gutmann Foundation, Weißenburg, July 2003
Student Paper Travel Grant of the 12th International IEEE Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, Nov. 2001
Award of the WiSo-Fakultätsbund Nürnberg e.V., awarded for the diploma in Business Administration, July 2000
Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for graduate studies at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA, Sept. 1998 – May 1999