Michael studied business and engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany and received his PhD from the technical University of Kaiserslautern where he focused on MBSE and its Integration with PLM. He has been co-chairing several committees at the Object Management Group (OMG) and the German chapter of INCOSE, where he participated in the standardization of the Systems Modeling Language (SysML). In 2018 he received the Prostep iViP Scientific Award for best dissertation in virtual product development and PLM. He gained Industry experience in several consulting Projects and joined ARAS in March 2019 as Senior Product Manager for Systems Engineering.