Committees, special interest groups, and working groups
- 2007 member of NATO Industrial Advisory Group, Study Group 109 – Critical Infrastructure Protection
- GI - Gesellschaft für Informatik/German Informatics Society
- member in SIGs: Software Engineering, Operating Systems, Communication Systems, and Distributed Systems, Computer Science and Education / Computer Science Education, Security/Safety - Protection and Dependability
- chair Working Group on Human-Machine Interaction in Safety Critical Systems (2007-2011)
- member steering committee Technical Committee on Software Ergonomics (2008-2011)
- member steering committee Regional Group Karlsruhe (2005-2009)
- IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- VDI - Verein Deutscher Ingenieure/Association of German Engineers (chartered engineer)
- GMA - Gesellschaft Mess- und Automatisierungstechnik/Society for Measurement and Automatic Control
- member working group on middleware (GMA - FA 5.16 Middleware) (2010-2013)
- IFAC - International Federation of Automatic Control
- member of the Selection Committee for the Applications Paper Prize to be awarded at IFAC World Congress 2011
- member Technical Committee on Human Machine Systems (IFAC TC 4.5 HMS)
- associated member ZMMS - Zentrum Mensch-Machine-Systeme, TU Berlin