Personendetails

Full Professor (Lehrstuhlinhaber Verteilte Informationssysteme), Universität Passau

Vizepräsident Akademische Infrastruktur/IT der Universität Passau, seit 12/2016
Chief Information Officer (CIO) Universität Passau, seit 03/2012

Président du conseil scientifique de l'UFA / Vorsitzender des wissenschaftlichen Beirats der DFH, seit 10.03.2017

ehemaliger Dekan der Fakultät für Informatik und Mathematik (10/2009-10/2011)

Before:

Associate Professor, Institute of Information Technology, Universität Klagenfurt, Austria (May 2002 - February 2006).
Senior Research Assistant, Universität Klagenfurt, Austria (March 1997 – May 2002).
Research Assistant, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France (September 1993 – March 1997).

Education / Professional Studies:

Technical University Munich – Germany
Vordiplom Informatik. (Nebenfach Elektrotechnik)

Université Claude Bernard Lyon – France
Degree/Diploma: Maitrîse Infomatique and DEA Informatique

Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon – France
PhD Informatique fondamentale

University Klagenfurt – Austria
venia docendi for "Praktische Informatik".

German Director of the German-French-Italian DFH/UFA-Doktorandenkolleg/Collège doctoral MDPS and the IFIK Double Master Degree in Computer Science between INSA de Lyon and University of Passau (French Director Pr. Lionel Brunie).

Research background in distributed information systems, distributed multimedia systems and middleware, content adaptation, multimedia databases (contribution to the MPEG-7, MPEG-21 and W3C standards) and distributed information retrieval.

Management of industrial projects with ATOS, Worldline, Siemens AG, Corporate Technology in the domain of IoT, WoT, multimedia systems and databases (including patents and software).

Member of the Editorial Board Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer.

Teaching courses in multimedia databases, distributed databases, Web technologies, distributed systems and operating systems for undergraduate and post graduate students, supervising practical trainings, coordinating student’s exchange up-to the PhD-level (see the French-German-Italian MDPS Doctoral College).