Having originally Graduated in Business Administration, I then worked as researcher in the field of distributed systems at the High performance Computing Centre at Stuttgart, Germany. My main interests lie in Service Oriented Architectures, with special focus on collaborative services. I worked on the EU funded project <a href="http://www.elegi.org"; title="European Learning Grid Infrastructure" target="_blank">ELeGI</a>.

At KMi,I researched the following topic: "A Generic Framework for Integrated User Management of Heterogeneous Collaborative Services within Service Oriented Architectures"

Keys: XML Web and Grid Services, Semantic Web, Computer Supported Collaborative Work, CSCW, Federated Identity Management, Next Generation Internet