Curriculum Vitae:

Denis Helic is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Information Processing and Computer Supported New Media (IICM) at Graz University of Technology, in Austria.

He has a M.Sc. (Dipl. Ing.) in Computer Technics and Ph.D. in Computer Science (with honours) from Graz University of Technology.

His research interests include multimedia and hypermedia information systems, the Web, semantic modeling on the Web, and especially E-Learning systems. He published more than 30 research papers in refereed international journals and conferences and won a number of conference best-paper awards related to his E-Learning research work. He participated in a number of national and international projects that focused on E-Learning such as CORONET (IST-1999-11634).

Currently, he is the technical leader of an EU Socrates funded project called EPHRAS that deals with E-Learning for foreign language students.

Main Research Interests:

• e-Learning systems and tools
• collaborative tools
• usiness process management and its application in E-Learning
• hypermedia and multimedia
• information modeling and management