Date of birth

29.8.1968

Place of birth

Düsseldorf, Germany

Citizenship

German

Desired place of work

World wide

Family status

Married with Kornelia Woesler (teacher) since 11.1994; son Alexander (date of birth 6.12.2001)

Parents

Univ. Prof. Winfried Woesler, Dr Dietlinde Woesler

University-entrance diploma

1987 (grade: 1.4)

winter term 87/88

Study of Physics (until 14.5.1993) at the Westfälische Wilhelms-University of Münster.

summer term 88 

Study of Mathematics (until summer term 93), skipping the first semester

summer term 89 

Intermediate examination in Physics (grade: 1.4).

Intermediate examination in Mathematics (grade: 1.1).

winter term 89/90

Industrial practical training (five weeks) at Hoechst CeramTec in Lauf near Nürnberg, Germany. Topic: Taguchi-statistics-methods.

winter term 90/91

Industrial placement (five weeks) at Daimler Benz-AEG-research institute in the group of Prof. Dr. R. D. Kühne, Ulm, Germany. Topic: "Linear stability analysis of a soliton solution of a traffic equation". Development and programming of an analytical solution to a numerical problem, which was about 100 times faster than the numerical solution for same accuracy. Before, experts had assumed that such an analytical solution cannot be found.

winter term 90/91

Skilled student help in the Mathematics university faculty.

summer term 91

Diploma oral examination in Physics (grade: 1.5).

winter term 91/92

Seminar paper at the Institute of Applied Physics of Prof. Dr. H.-G. Purwins concerning analytical and numerical treatment of a two-component reaction-diffusion equation with integral.

summer term 92

Diploma thesis at the institute of Prof. Dr. H.-G. Purwins. Topic: "Theory of the stability of front structures of reaction-diffusion-systems with global inhibition" (21.4.92-21.4.93).

Independent continuation of a seminar of Visiting Professor Dr. B. Kerner concerning "Structures in reaction-diffusion-systems".

Skilled student help in the Mathematics university faculty. Topic: "Numerical investigations of partial differential equations I".

summer term 93

Certification (diploma) in Physics (grade: 1).

Research to prepare a publication concerning the diploma thesis (1.6.93-30.9.93).

Proposition to work as scientific fellow employee at the institute of Prof. Dr. F. H. Busse at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, for the preparation of a doctoral thesis.

1993

Change of the specialist field to Theoretical Neurophysics at the institute of Prof. Dr. H. Schwegler, University of Bremen (15.10.93).

Research: "Study concerning the visuomotor coordination of salamanders, especially the object recognition during prey catching behaviour" (15.10.93-15.12.93).

1994

Scientific employee (BAT IIa/2) at the DFG research project "Interdisciplinary research on cognition" (1.1.94-31.12.95).

Start of the doctoral thesis "Neural Networks for Object Segmentation in Amphibians and an Algorithmic Classification of Neurons" (22.2.94).

1994-1998

Collaborator/associate member in the research project (Graduiertenkolleg) "Orientation in space and organization of procedural skills of autonomous systems", member of the "Center for Cognitive Sciences"; doctoral studies in Physics.

Person in charge of students in the Seminar of Theoretical Neurophysics (until 31.12.97).

1996-1997

Scientific employee (BAT IIa/2) in the DFG research program "Physiology and Theory of Neural Networks" (1.1.96-31.12.97).

Test of English as a Foreign Language (grade: excellent)

since 1996

Collaborator in the specialist research field (Sonderforschungsbereich) 517: "Neural Foundations of Cognitive Abilities".

1.1998-7.2000

Restricted ability to work due to an injury

PhD in Theoretical Physics (grade: magna cum laude, 11.98)

Publication of the PhD thesis as a book and work contract for providing a publication in a scientific journal (15.4.99-30.4.99).

Preparation of further scientific publications.

Development and programming of a neuromechanical web-based computer simulation of visuomotor behaviour of salamanders in an internet collaboration with Prof. A. Ijspeert and Prof. M. Arbib, USC, Los Angeles, USA (publication 2001).

since 1.8.2000

Scientific employee at the German Aerospace Center at the Institute of Transport Research of Prof. R.D. Kühne and Prof. K. Lemmer in the department of Transport Informatics (Cologne and Berlin)

Work for national and international projects, which are supported by the BMBF (German Ministry for Research) "LUMOS (Air borne traffic monitoring)", "Eye in the Sky" (Air-borne traffic data and fleet management for events), "Intelligent Traffic and user-friendly technique" (INVENT),  "Sino-German High-Tech Olympic Forum: An Intermodal Transportation Information System for large-scale Event Management" (TRANSIT)

Graduation in seminars on project teamwork, personnel management, conduct of negotiations, project management, and EU project acquisition, 4 talks at 3 international summer schools on transport research

1.2001-6.2004

Development of concepts and Leadership of the German Aerospace Center project "Fusion of different technologies for traffic data extraction", and of the subproject "Development of algorithms and programs for optical technologies", project duration 1.01-6.04

Leadership of the German Aerospace Center subproject "Automatic image processing" of the project "Dynamic traffic control"

9.2001 – 5.2004

Leadership of subproject "Real-time recognition and reidentification" in the innovation project "Optical Information Systems for Traffic Analysis and Traffic Control" of the "Center for Applications of Intermodal Transport Telematics" supported by the German Ministry of Research

11.2001

Recommendation as a candidate for nomination for the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz award 2002 by the Institute of Transport Research (management board of German Aerospace Center evaluated the work as "excellent")

Since 6.2002

Elected member of Scientific-Technical Committee of the German Aerospace Center and member of the Technical Committee for Traffic and of the Technical Committee for Air Traffic

Seit 8.2002

Decisive work concerning a research group for "Applications of biological principles for optimization of Transport" in cooperation with D. Neunzig, Prof. Wallentowitz, RWTH Aachen, Germany, including project proposal for VM 2010

2003

Cooperation in the Task Force "Traffic data extraction"

Since 1.2004

Cooperation in the project "Traffic in urban agglomeration" with focus on "Optical Traffic Data Extraction" (patent DE 103 28 814), "Development of new techniques for urban traffic control" and "Integration of information from users to optimize FCD based traffic prognosis and routing" (patent DE 102 41 538)

4.2004

Initiation, planning and moderation of the Technical Council "Traffic" of German Aerospace Center

7.2004

Award "Research Semester" from the management board of the German Aerospace Center especially for development of concept and software for real-time 3D recognition of vehicles and real-time reidentification of vehicles (world wide first such system) in the project "Optical Information Systems for Traffic Analysis and Traffic Control" supported by the German Ministry of Research

9. – 12.2004

"Research Semester" of the German Aerospace Center at the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, in the institute of Prof. P.B. Mirchandani, who is director of the "Advanced Traffic and Logistics Algorithms and Systems" (ATLAS) Research Center. Topic: Development of new concepts for traffic data extraction, routing and traffic control (24.9.-29.12.04)

Since 1.2005

Cooperation with Brandenburg Technical University concerning traffic simulation and traffic control

Cooperation in the "Traffic Tower" for development and evaluation of traffic control techniques

5.2005

Talk as one of four selected candidates for application for the permanent university professorship at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria, on "Traffic informatics"