Christoph Igel

Christoph Gerd Igel (* 1968 ) is a German scientist and university professor . He is research director and managing director of the agency for innovation in cybersecurity of the Federal Ministry of Defense and the Federal Ministry of the Interior, for Building and Home Affairs .

Life

After graduating from high school, Igel did his 15-month military service in the army in a battalion of the paratrooper troops and was trained as a sniper .

He then studied sports science , history , political science and educational science from 1989 to 1996 at the Saarland University . From 1996 he was a research assistant at the chair for sports science, work area "movement and training science" of Reinhard Daugs. In 2003 he was appointed Academic Councilor, two years later he became Academic Senior Councilor. 2000 followed in Saarbrücken the doctorate on the subject of mental training in the subjects of sports science, educational science and modern history . Igel completed his habilitation in 2007 at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster , was Scientific Director of the Educational Technology Lab of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Berlin and honorary professor at the Technical University of Chemnitz . He was also visiting professor at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China and chairman of the expert group “Intelligent Education Networks” of the national digital summit of the federal government .

Igel later returned to the Bundeswehr as a soldier and career changer . During an aptitude exercise , he had to go through basic training again , which took place at the Information Technology Battalion 281 in Gerolstein . After four months he switched to the temporary employment position of a soldier and was transferred to the Cyber and Information Room Command in Bonn , where he worked in the planning department in the area of digitization.

Mental training: on the effect of pro- and retrospective imagination processes on movement learning . Sport and Book Strauss, Cologne 2001, ISBN 978-3-89001-359-6 .

personal data
SURNAME	Hedgehog, Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Igel, Christoph Gerd (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	1968