Jan Olaf

Jan Michael Olaf (born April 19, 1963 in Essen (Ruhr)) is a physicist who teaches business informatics as a professor at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) in Lörrach and is head of the IT management and informatics study center .

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Olaf first attended the Lönsberg elementary school in Essen and then the Stadtwaldgymnasium in Essen with a high school diploma in 1982. After 15 months of military service in Rendsburg , he began studying physics at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau , which he completed with a diploma in 1989. During his diploma thesis on an experiment on the Large Electron Positron Collider storage ring, he was a research assistant at the European nuclear research center CERN in Geneva .

He completed his doctoral degree in physics at the University of Freiburg in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials in 1992 with a doctorate as a Dr. rer. nat. from. The dissertation topic: A method for evaluating the mechanical behavior of surface layers .

He then became a research associate at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials in Freiburg, Stress Analysis Department (1992–1995), later technology transfer officer and assistant to the director for technology, IT and public relations , Endress + Hauser Consult AG, Reinach (CH) (1995 -1998).

From 1998 to 2015 he held various specialist and management positions at Endress + Hauser InfoServe GmbH + Co. KG in Weil am Rhein , including as a project manager for the establishment of the intranet and for the introduction of an e-business platform for the group of companies, as a sales manager to set up sales for external customers, as a division manager for marketing and a member of the management team, and as a training manager, especially for computer science and business informatics students at the Cooperative State University in Lörrach. In 2014, together with “his” students, he applied for a patent for an intelligent helmet for use in system maintenance.

In 2015 Jan Olaf was appointed professor for business informatics and head of the IT management and informatics study center at the DHBW Lörrach. His focus is on digitization , digital transformation and Industry 4.0 .

Jan Olaf devotes part of his free time to the phaenovum - Student Research Center Lörrach Dreiländereck, where he has been a member of the board since it was founded in 2007. He is also the executive chairman of the Friends of the DHBW Lörrach eV, which supports the DHBW in Lörrach through a variety of measures. As the first chairman of Lörrach Innovativ eV, he is also committed to networking schoolchildren and students in the context of innovative university projects.

Olaf is married to Chantal Olaf geb. Hommes; both have two children together.

Individual evidence

1. ^ DHBW Lörrach: Expert search. Retrieved April 5, 2020 . 
2. ↑ DPMAregister | Patents - Register information. Retrieved April 5, 2020 . 
3. ↑ News - phaenovum. In: phaenovum.eu. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .