My research is in the area of Networked Systems, focusing on two main areas, i.e. Network Management and Multimedia Systems. Further, I have also been working on research related to energy efficient computer architectures. Within all my research I take a systems approach by developing architectures and frameworks, protocols and communication mechanisms that are evaluated analytically, through simulations and prototypes. Through my research I am part of the Energy Lancaster and Security Lancaster schemes. My research has been published in more than 70 peer-reviewed publications and I have been a senior member in more than 9 projects in recent years

Employment History 

07/2013 - present    Reader in Networked Systems, School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

01/2005 – 06/2013   Senior Lecturer, School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University,                                           Lancaster, UK

05/2002 – 12/2004   Research Head, Multimedia Communicaitons Leab - KOM,  Technical University of Darmstadt        Darmstadt, Germany

12/1997 – 03/2002 CDO, General Manager UK Operations and Member of Management Board, tecmath AG Kaiserslautern, Germany 

Dipl-Wirtsch-Inf, University of Mannheim, Germany, 1993

Ph.D. Computer Science, Lancaster 1998

Member of Editorial Board of Multimedia Systems Journal, Springer Verlag, 04/06

Steering Committee Member of Future Multimedia Networking (FMN) workshop, since 2008, now ACM SIGCOOM workshop FhMN