Short portrait of Dr Thorsten Fox

For more than 10 years Dr Thorsten Fox has conceived and realised information systems and CBT/WBT applications with interactive media and 3D visualisation, specifically in medicine. As a co-founder and managing director he built up the company ENTEC GmbH as a GMD SpinOff. His main expertise combines established technological knowledge with media didactic competence in Medicine and Pharmaceutics.

Thorsten Fox
Dr. rer. nat.
Computer scientist (Diplominformatiker)

 

Short CV

• Studies of informatics and psychology at Bonn university.
• Work as a student at GMD (Research Centre Information Technology GmbH) in St Augustin, research in the area of man-machine communication. Realisation of multimedial learning programmes for office software (MS-Excel).
• Diploma thesis on the conception, realisation and evaluation of a multimedial 3D tutoring system in the field of medicine (published as CD ROM "EchoExplorer" at Urban & Fischer).
• Freelance work as a multimedia designer (video & CD ROM production).
• 1996 Founding of ENTEC GmbH.
• Dissertation on "Designing of animated 3D graphical scenes for an effective communication of spatial-dynamic information".
• 2002 Founding of Fox NewMedia.