Jurgen is currently the Chief Academic Officer of the IED Group in Milan, overseas 9 campuses around the world and is a ranked faculty at the MFM University of Applied Sciences Munich, where he teaches Design and Media Theory. Before he worked at Monterrey TECH as a faculty for Design and Design Theory. Between January 2006 and December 2006 he worked as the Dean for Academic Affairs at CEDIM, Monterrey. He also taught design and theory with an emphasis on design processes and the possible transformation into other disciplines. In addition he is a practicing researcher, designer, and artist, who showed in many places, including Museums and Galleries in Europe, Germany, France, England, Italy, Poland and Slovakia as well as the United States.
Between 1999 and 2006 he was a Professor and Chair at the Cleveland Institute of Art, United States and the Dean of Integrated Media Environment and responsible for the re-design of curricula in Print Media, Drawing, Illustration, Communication Design as well as Biomedical Communication. Over the past years he published about the idea transferring design methods and processes into the Management field, based on his work about a comprehensive theory to describe design processes.