Developed and built a house control system for heating integrating various heat sources like gas, oil, wood, solar. Also controlling lighting, shading, and appliances.

Group leader of Distributed Systems Group

In order to continuously support the European computing infrastructures and to exploit possible synergies, it is of crucial importance to coordinate the European Globus activities, drive forward Globus developments according to the requirements of European users and strengthen the influence of European developers in the Globus Alliance. Topics such as security and privacy, data privacy protection, compatibility with Grid standards used in Europe to enable interoperability, and aspects of multi-nationality are important in Europe and deserve a stronger representation in Globus. The Initiative for Globus in Europe (IGE) will introduce the adjustments critical for Europe into the code base of the Globus Toolkit. IGE will enable computing infrastructures such as DEISA and PRACE to immediately access the high-quality middleware required to run their infrastructures while reducing their own efforts keeping track of new developments. Additionally, once EGI has been established, IGE can take over the role of providing Globus Toolkit components to the Unified Middleware Distribution (UMD) of EGI.The IGE will serve as a comprehensive service provider for the European e-infrastructures regarding the development, customisation, provisioning, support, and maintenance of components of the Globus Toolkit. This involves the continuous measurement of software quality, but must also include the operation of a software repository as well as participation in standardisation bodies, training, promotion, and documentation activities. In order to guarantee the sustainability of this effort, the main activities will be based at large European computing centres and industrial partners. The first steps will be the establishment of a European Globus Community Forum and the organisation of a yearly Globus Europe conference series in close cooperation with the organisers of the Globus World conference.

Post-doc in theoretical biophysics. I did molecular dynamics simulations of membranes and developed the EGO MD code.

I built a 60-node transputer (T800) system, programmed it for molecular dynamics simulations (in occam), set up and simulated a membrane patch (POPC), analyzed the long MD run and compared the data to experimental data. This was the work for my PhD (German Dr.) thesis.

Studied physics, specialty: Theoretical Biophysics