is holder of the chair for health informatics at the Faculty of Health at the University of Witten/Herdecke. After studying scientific computer science (focusing on bioinformatics) at the University of Bielefeld, he received his doctorate at the TU Dortmund. At the same time, he has been working at the Fraunhofer ISST in Dortmund since 2006. He is responsible for developing digital health skills in the UW/H model course in human medicine.