Professional Activities (Present and Past)

Member of the Senate of the Christian Doppler Forschungsgesellschaft (CDG)
Member of the Science and Research Council of the Federal State of Salzburg (Wissenschafts- und Forschungsrat des Landes Salzburg (WFR))
Member of the Board of Directors of the Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien (FTW)
Chair of the Strategic Board of the Software Competence Center Hagenberg (SCCH) at Johannes Kepler University Linz
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Software Competence Center Hagenberg (SCCH) at Johannes Kepler University Linz
Member of the Standing Committee of the Programme Line "COIN Cooperation and Networks" of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
Scientific Director of the [IN:N] Alumni Network of the Faculty of Informatics of TU-Vienna
Member of the Board of Executive Directors (CTO Chief Technological Officer) of a software development AG
Governing Board Member of the European UNIX User Group
Governing Board Member of the Austrian User Group
Founder and Chair of the Austrian Prolog Standardization Group
Member of the ISO Working Group for the standardization of Prolog
Conference chair, committee member, organizer and coordinator of international conferences
Reviewer for international journals and conferences and for research funding organizations
Chair of the Technical Board of the XVSM Open Source Initiative
Founder of two seed and private equity Venture Capital financed Spin-Off companies
Leadership of commercial and Open Source software developer teams
Chief developer of a medical, time-oriented database system for hospitals
Chief developer of a patented commercial middleware product
Coordinator of funded research projects and of directly contracted projects with industry