Profile

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. Currently, I am the technical coordinator the project Im Wissensnetz (In the Knowledge Web), which tries to develop the methodology into the direction of more informal learning processes in emerging domains and to incorporate social awareness. Furthermore, I am 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.

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.