Matthias Jarke

Curriculum Vitae:

Matthias Jarke is Professor of Information Systems at RWTH Aachen University and Director of the Fraunhofer FIT Institute of Applied Information Technology. After obtaining master degrees in Computer Science and in Business Administration as well as a Doctorate in Business Informatics from the University of Hamburg, Germany, he served on the faculties of the Stern School of Business at New York University and the Faculty of Informatics at Passau University, prior to joining RWTH Aachen in 1991. In 2003, he founded the Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (B-IT), an endowment-funded joint institute of RWTH Aachen and University of Bonn offering English-language master and doctoral education in Applied IT. In his research, he investigates information system support for cooperative activities in business, engineering, and culture. Jarke has served as coordinator of several European IST projects in the field of information systems engineering, and is currently area coordinator "Mobile Applications and Services" of Aachen's DFG-funded Excellence Cluster "Ultra-highspeed Mobile Information and Communication (UMIC)". He has published close to 300 books and refereed papers in journals and conferences, served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Information Systems" from 1993-2003 and as Program Chair of leading international conferences such as VLDB, CAiSE, EDBT, CoopIS, SSDBM, and others. From 2004-2007, he served as president of the German Informatics society GI.

Main Research Interests:

• information systems engineering
• metadata management
• requirements engineering
• community information systems
• engineering information systems