After two post-doc positions at the Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, Illinois, and the University of California at Berkeley, California, he was selected in 1987 to join the German astronaut team.
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When the German astronaut team was merged into a European Space Agency, he did not transfer, but resigned to work at IBM Germany.