Director and head of research area Human-Technology Interaction at Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO. His interdisciplinary teams work on solutions that enable efficient interaction between people and intelligent technology. His work focuses on adaptive systems, future work environments and the design of positive user experiences. He coordinates the AI Innovation Center »Learning Systems and Cognitive Robotics«, the applied branch of the Cyber Valley ecosystem to transfer machine learning technologies into commercial use. For the human-oriented design of future work with AI, he is involved in Germany’s »Plattform Lernende Systeme« and the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI).