Resume

Experience
University of Sheffield
Sheffield, United Kingdom
Research Associate
01.02.2011Present

Working on the PATHS project that aims to develop novel user-interfaces for accessing digital Cultural Heritage collections.

The National Archives
London, United Kingdom
Web Developer
01.04.201031.01.2011

My work focused on developing an automatic geo-referencing system for historical records. This made it possible to automatically locate historic documents for a given place or area. In addition I developed some sample applications, such as the Domesday on a Map.

Cardiff University
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Research Associate
01.01.201031.03.2010

My work focused on developing and maintaining the demonstration systems for the Tripod EU project in the run-up to the final review.

Associate Lecturer
01.10.200931.01.2010

I wrote, taught, and examined the “Internet Computing” course that is part of the M.Sc. degree in the School of Computer Science and Informatics.

Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt
Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria
Associate Lecturer
01.10.200628.02.2007

I part-wrote, taught, and examined an “Introduction to Computers Science” course that is part of the Geographic Information Systems specialisation of the Geography degree at the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt.

Self-employed
Software Developer
01.06.200631.07.2006

Contract-work to develop an HTML+CSS rendering system.

Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt
Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria
Research Associate
01.11.200430.06.2006

Employed on the HarmonISA EU project to develop a system for automatically integrating land-use and land-cover data-sets from Austria, Italy, and Slovenia. Documented in my master thesis “A Semantic Similarity Measure for Formal Ontologies” and various publications.

Software Developer
01.12.200331.03.2004

With a colleague we developed an on-line system for digitising historic documents for the History Department.

Software Developer
01.07.200130.11.2003

I was responsible for the introduction, development and maintenance of an on-line course management system.

Education
Cardiff University
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
PhD in Computer Science
20072011

My PhD focused on developing quantitative models for spatial prepositions. Based on these quantitative models I developed systems for automatically interpreting and generating spatial-language expressions that can be tried out online. The PhD was conducted in the context of the Tripod EU project and is available from the publications, as are a number of papers on various aspects of the work.

Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt
Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria
Diplom Ingenieur
20052006

Equivalent to a M.Sc. in Computer Science. My specialisation was in Knowledge Engineering and Geographical Information systems, which led to my master thesis “A Semantic Similarity Measure for Formal Ontologies”.

Baccalaureat der technischen Wissenschaften
19992005

Equivalent to a B.Sc. in Computer Science with a specialisation in Computational Linguistics.

Awards
University of Sheffield
Sheffield, United Kingdom
The Sheffield Teaching Assistant
09.02.2012

Certificate of Attendance on The Sheffield Teaching Assistant programme

ACM
Association for Computing Machinery
Best poster-presentation ACM GIS’08

Best poster-presentation at the ACM GIS 2008 conference in Irvine, California, USA

Training
University of Sheffield
Sheffield, United Kingdom
Assessment & Feedback
13.12.2011

1/2 day session on Assessment & Feedback in The Sheffield Teaching Assistant programme

Supervising Research Projects
10.11.2011

1/2 day session on Supervising Research Projects in The Sheffield Teaching Assistant programme

Small Group Teaching (Laboratory Demonstrating)
11.11.2011

1/2 day session on Small Group Teaching (Laboratory Demonstrating)  in The Sheffield Teaching Assistant programme

Small Group Teaching (Seminar Facilitation)
09.11.2011

1/2 day session on Small Group Teaching (Seminar Facilitation) in The Sheffield Teaching Assistant programme

Large Group Teaching
28.11.2011

1/2 day session on Large Group Teaching in The Sheffield Teaching Assistant programme