Biography

Dr.-Ing. Stefan Schulte is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Distributed Systems Group. Until July 2011, Stefan headed the research group "Service-oriented Computing" at the Multimedia Communications Lab at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. Furthermore, he was head of the SOA Competence Center at Hessisches Telemedia Technologie Kompetenz-Center (httc e.V.), Darmstadt.
Stefan received a diploma degree in economics and a Bachelor in computer science from the University of Oldenburg, Germany, and a Master of Information Technology (with Merit) from the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, in 2005 and 2006, respectively. From 2006 to 2010, he was a PhD student at the Multimedia Communications Lab. In 2010, Stefan finished his PhD on Web Service discovery at Technische Universität Darmstadt "mit Auszeichnung" (summa cum laude). Findings from his research have been published in more than 50 refereed scholarly publications. He serves as reviewer for prestigious conferences and journals, e.g., ACM Computing Surveys, ACM Transactions on the Web, or IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, as well as for research agencies like Luxembourg's Fonds National de la Recherche.
Stefan is the project coordinator of the currently running EU FP7 STREP SIMPLI-CITY - The Road User Information System of the Future and of the upcoming EU Factories of the Future RIA Cloud-based Rapid Elastic Manufacturing (CREMA). He has acquired several projects sponsored by the industry, the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and the European Union and was the overall proposal coordinator of the EU FP7 STREPs ADVENTURE and SIMPLI-CITY, as well as the EU H2020 FoF RIA CREMA.
Stefan is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI).