He obtained a Diploma from the University of Gießen and a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. In 2004 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Karlsruhe. His main research areas comprise Market and Service Engineering in service-oriented computing, Grid computing, Supply Chain Management, Green IT and Energy Management. Currently, he is coordinating the EU-funded project “Self-organizing ICT resource Management”, which deals with the set-up of markets in Grid computing environments.