Prior to that he was an Acting Professor at the University of Mannheim and before that a researcher at the University of Kaiserslautern and a Lecturer at Staffordshire University (UK). His interests are centered on object technology, programming language design and metamodeling. He received a Ph.D. and M.Sc. from the Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany in 1998 and 1992 respectively. Prof. Kuehne can draw from considerable presentation and teaching experience especially from courses held at Staffordshire University. In particular, Dr. Kuehne already has given a full course on metamodeling at the Darmstadt University of Technology.