His research interests include business process management, model-driven software development, security engineering, and the management of dynamic (distributed) software systems. He received his doctoral degree as well as his Habilitation degree (venia docendi) from WU Vienna. He is a key researcher at the Secure Business Austria Research Center (http://www.sba-research.org/team/), and the Vice Institute Head of the Institute for Information Systems at WU Vienna (http://nm.wu.ac.at/).