Curriculum Vitae:

Since 2008 Wolf-Tilo Balke holds the Chair for Information Systems at TU Braunschweig.

From 2004 until 2008 he was the associate research director of L3S Research Center of University of Hannover and was elected member of the Institute in 2005. From 2002-2004 he was a research fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. His research is in the area of information systems and service provisioning, including middleware retrieval algorithms, preference-based session management, and ontology-based discovery and selection of information services. Wolf-Tilo Balke is also a member of the Emmy Noether program of excellence and the recipient of two Emmy-Noether-Grants (2002 and 2004) of the German Research Foundation (DFG), as well as the Scientific Award (2001) of the University Foundation Augsburg. He has received his MS degree (1997) in mathematics and a PhD in computer science (2001) from University of Augsburg, Germany.

Main Research Interests:

• database and information systems
• digital libraries and multimedia databases
• query processing, user preferences and personalization
• cognitive user modeling and usage patterns
• peer-to-peer networks and distributed retrieval
• Web services, mobile computing and content syndication