GEYSERS

SAP Research is the global technology research unit of SAP AG. The group significantly contributes to SAP's product portfolio and extends its leading position in the market by identifying and shaping emerging IT trends and generating breakthrough technologies through applied research.
In contrast to SAP’s product groups and development labs that work on new functions and releases, the researchers explore opportunities that haven’t yet been developed into products.
SAP Research spreads its research and development activities around the globe. Currently, their thriving network comprises of 15 centers worldwide, their headquarters in Walldorf, and numerous partners from the business and academic worlds. (Additional information is available at www.sap.com/research.)

CVs of key persons

Thomas Michael Bohnert is a senior research scientist at SAP Research in Zürich. He is responsible for the research competence centre Network of the Future (NoF) where he works on topics such as Future Internet Architectures (FIA), Convergence of Next Generation Networks (NGN) and Service Oriented Infrastructure (SOI), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Besides he leads and conducts research on Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) and Vehicle-to-Backend (V2B) integration, and architectures for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Thomas was and is involved in various national and international research projects, e.g. FP6 IP WEIRD, FP6 NoE E-NEXT, CELTIC 100GET, ESF COST 290. His 10 plus years of industrial experience range from SAP over NEC, VTT and SIEMENS to his own IT consultancy named BNCS. He is a member of the eMobility ETP Steering Board and serves as Regional Correspondent (Europe) for the IEEE Communications Magazine News Section. His works have been published in several books, journals, and conferences. He remains involved in academia as chair and TPC member of international conferences.

Marc Brogle joined SAP Research Zürich in 2010 where he works as senior researcher in the area of IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) research topics. He completed his M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University of Bern, Switzerland, in 2004. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate of the Computer Networks and Distributed Systems group (CNDS) in the Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (IAM) of the University of Bern, Switzerland. Marc has been working in the EU FP6 IP EUQoS research project and is a member of the ERCIM eMobility WG. He is currently also involved in the FP7 STREP ELVIRE focusing on electrical vehicles research. Before pursuing his academic and researcher career, he was working for many years in various fields of network & system administration as well as designing and developing distributed applications & systems.

Philip Robinson is a researcher at SAP Research in Belfast, where new execution environments and approaches to effective management of SAP systems in these environments are being investigated. Philip is currently exploring methods for modeling, visualization and deployment management of service oriented software and infrastructures, with a focus on security aspects. He has authored and coauthored several publications in the area of security engineering, and has completed a doctoral thesis on manageability-centric security engineering. His research addressed the challenges of designing manageable security architectures for modern, dynamic application infrastructures such as mobile computing, ubiquitous computing and virtual organizations. He has recently been leading the security analysis and evaluation work in the XtreemOS project, and now investigates the viability, opportunities and risks of deploying SAP systems on dynamic network infrastructure, as developed in the GEYSERS project.

Thilo Ginkel joined SAP in 2005 as a software engineer where he has worked in the areas of application-to-application integration infrastructure and business process management. Overall, he has over fifteen years of experience in software development. At SAP Research he is currently contributing to the ELVIRE and GEYSERS research projects focusing on electric mobility and cloud computing, respectively.