Dr. Bernhard Steffen
University of Dortmund

[Germany]

steffen@sunshine.cs.uni-dortmund.de

Born 31.5.58, he holds a Diplom in Mathematics (1983) and a Ph.D. in Computer Science (1987) from the University of Kiel (Germany). After holding research positions at the University of Edinburgh, UK (1988-89) and at the University of Aarhus, DK (1990) he was tenured Associate Professor at the Technical University of Aachen, D (1990-93) and held the Chair of Programming Systems at the University of Passau, D (1993-97).

Since August 1997 he holds the Chair of Programming Systems at the University of Dortmund, D, where he heads the METAFrame project, concerning the development of a flexible environment for reliable definition and custom configuration of complex workflows.