Supervisory Board

Dr. Jürgen Schulze received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. After a postdoctoral position at the University of Hannover, Dr. Schulze joined Perceptronics Inc. and worked on distributed simulations, based on CORBA, COM, and EJB. Dr. Schulze also worked for cleverLearn.com, combining electronic dictionaries and eLearning technologies. After that, Dr. Schulze consulted at Credit Suisse Financial Planning Solutions, and at the Credit Research group at HypoVereinsbank. Currently Dr. Schulze is a consultant at the Research Operations team at UniCredit Markets and Investment Banking.

Dr. Richard Sizmann holds a doctorate in physics. He is co-founder, managing director and board member of microstep IT AG. There, he is responsible for business development of Microstep Alliance, a group of companies centered around microstep IT AG. During the last ten years he led the business side of various projects for front-office systems for private and investment banking. Dr. Sizmann also holds positions in several Microstep Alliance companies.

Prof. Dr. Edward Gibson is Professor of Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. The focus of Prof. Gibson’s research is on how computational complexity affects human language processing. His laboratory uses a variety of techniques, including reaction time studies, computational models, neuroimaging, and trips to the Amazon (cf. here). Prof. Gibson is a rower; he was on the Canadian Olympic team, and he won the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race while he was at the University of Cambridge.