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Editors Biography
Action Plan from 2009, he also oversees international cooperation on the Internet of
Things, in particular with Asian countries.
In previous engagements he was working as senior consultant for IBM, dealing
with major automotive and utility companies in Germany and Europe. Prior to this
engagement he worked as IT manager at Philips Semiconductors dealing with business
process optimisation in complex manufacturing. Before that period he was active
as a researcher in European and national research projects on advanced telecommunications
and business process reorganisation.
He is a graduate engineer in Aeronautics and Space technology from the University
of Munich and holds a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering including self-organising
systems from the University of Bremen. He also published a number of articles and
co-edits a yearly book of the European Internet of Things Research Cluster.