• Born 03.07.1960 in Leningrad (Russia)
• Studied Geodesy at the Saint Petersburg Mining Institute (earlier LGI) being concluded by dissertation (Leningrad, 1982)
• PhD-thesis at the Research Institute for Mine Surveying (Leningrad, 1990)
• Surveying Engineer in the Project Institute of Highways, in the Management for Underground Construction, in the Research Institute for Mine Surveying (Leningrad, 1982-1991)
• German course for professionals and executives (Aachen, 1992)
• Surveying engineer in the area of road construction (Aachen, 1993-1995)
• Researcher at the Technical University Cottbus (1995-1997)
• Chief Engineer at the Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformatics of the University of Rostock (1997-2003)
• Lecturer for Surveying at the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück (2002 - 2004)
• Since 2004 Professor for Surveying and Geoinformatics at the Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin (TFH Berlin earlier)
• Lectureship "Digital methods in construction" at the Technical University of Cottbus (2011-2015)