Dr. Thomas Risse. Thomas Risse is the deputy managing director of the L3S Research Center in Hannover, Germany. He received his diploma in Computer Science (1997) and his PhD in Computer Science (2006) from the Darmstadt University of Technology (TU Darmstadt), Germany under supervision of Prof. Erich J. Neuhold. In 1998 he joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Publication System (FhG-IPSI) in Darmstadt where he worked in several European and industrial projects. From 2001-2006 he was the manager of the division for Intelligent Information Environments. From 2004 - 2007 he was also the technical director of the European funded research project BRICKS (IST 507457), which aim was the development of a decentralized infrastructure for the integrated access on distributed digital cultural resources. Currently he is the coordinator of the FP7 Living Web Archive (LiWA) project to develop advanced methods for Web archiving and to ensure long term semantic accessibility of archives. He is also involved in the national LinSearch project, which aim is the development of automatic classification and thesaurus based index of technical documents for professional information providers.

Thomas Risse's research interests are data management in distributed systems, federated search, and SematicWeb technologies. He serves regularly as program committee member or reviewer for national and international projects or conferences. He published several papers at the relevant international conferences. In addition he is member of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering.

• Coordinator of the European project Liwa - Living Web Archives
• The national funded project LinSearch
• The European project BRICKS as the technical and scientific director.

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