I am Lecturer in the Computing Department at Lancaster University, UK, and programme director of the MSc on E-Business and Innovation. I do research in the areas of ubiquitous computing, collaborative computing and business computing and am the principle investigator of the NEMO project, an EPSRC-funded collaboration between Lancaster’s Departments of Computing, Management Science and Psychology, which has the goal to investigate ubiquitous computing technologies for industrial workplaces.

I obtained my PhD in 2002 from the University of Oregon with a dissertation on development support for applications supporting wearable communities. In addition I hold a MSc from University of Oregon and a Diplom in Computer Science from Stuttgart University.

I joined Lancaster University in 2002 as a postdoctoral researcher. Prior to that I held several positions in the software industry and at various research labs. From 2000 – 2002 I was leading the development efforts at Internet start-up Livingnetworks. Before that I developed mobile computing solutions at Apple Computer’s Advanced Technology Group in Cupertino, USA, wrote 3D architectural software for Artifice Inc., researched knowledge-based systems at both the (now defunct) IBM Science Center in Germany and Technical University of Berlin, and developed production management software at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering in Stuttgart, Germany.