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)