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Since completing my studies in computer science at the University of Karlsruhe (Germany), I have been working as a researcher at the FZI Research Center for Information Technologies in Karlsruhe. In CoastBase, a European integration project for building a warehouse for coastal data and information, I was responsible for coordinating the technical implementation. Within the project Learning in Process where I was leading the scientific activities, I have developed a competency-oriented methodology for supporting work-integrated learning on demand (for more information see professional-learning.eu) and a technical infrastructure for user context management and context-aware services. In subsequent industrial projects (one of them by order of SAP), we have been transferring the research results into industrial practice.
Afterward, I was technical coordinator the project Im Wissensnetz (In the Knowledge Web), which tried to develop the methodology into the direction of more informal learning processes in emerging domains and to incorporate social awareness. Furthermore, I was coordinating FZI's activities in the EU project (eInclusion call) AGENT-DYSL aiming at an intelligent adaptive reading environment for dyslectic students.
Since spring 2008, I have been scientific coordinator of the FP7 IP MATURE, which builds upon the the knowledge maturing model I have developed as a bridge between e-learning and knowledge management.
Furthermore, I have also been involved in two Ambient-Assisted Living projects: SOPRANO and UniversAAL. In this context, I have co-initiated the open source ambient middleware project openAAL.
Since September 2005, I am coordinating the team activities of Professor Lockemann as a department manager within the research division Information Process Engineering and I am responsible for the competence area Knowledge and Learning. At the same time, I am an assistant lecturer at the University of Karlsruhe with a lecture on Information Integration and Web Portals.
In addition to that, I am interested in Martin Buber and his philosophical and theological works and I take care of the Martin Buber Web Pages.
My recent presentations on Slideshare:
