Professor of Computer Science at the University of Vienna and associated with the Faculty for Computer Science. Has been director of the Fraunhofer Institute IPSI in Darmstadt and has extensive experience working together with industries in all types of projects. Involved with multi-media databases and web-information systems covering issues of semantic enrichment for effective information interoperability and information mining. Participated in investigating issues of information integration and analysis as well as security and privacy issues as they arise in the WEB 2.0 and mobile environments and all its social communities whether private or professional. via interdisciplinary projects.

M.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering and Mining, University of Leoben (Rektor Platzer Ring), 8 years of top management consulting experience with McKinsey and Company. Founder, Shareholder and Chairman of K & H Oil and EMELA GmbH. Entrepreneur with strong leadership qualities and an excellent network of high-level business relationships around the globe.

Full Professor and Director of the Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems at the Vienna University of Technology. Chairman of the Austrian National Competence Center for Security Research (“Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies Initiative” of the Austrian government). Guest Professor at the Universities of Zurich, Kyushu and Wroclaw (Poland) and at the Technical Universities of Prague and Lausanne (Switzerland). Vicechairman of the IFIP Technical Committee for Information Systems and Chairman of the IFIP Working Group on Enterprise Information Systems. Member of the Board of the Christian Doppler Foundation for the establishment of high-technology transfer labs in Austria. University of Technology’s Coordinator of the ASEA-UNINET and Vice-Chairman of the DEXA Association. Served as Chairman of several international conferences including the IEEE Int. Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems, European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC), the International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web). Current research focus areas are data warehousing, cloud computing, semantic web, security, and non-standard IT-applications. Published more than 150 peer reviewed articles for journals and conferences. Author and Editor of 15 books.