Gabriele Kotsis

Team Leader

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Gabriele Kotsis started her scientific career at the University of Vienna. She received her masters degree (1991, honored with the Award of the Austrian Computer Society), her PhD (1995, honored with the Heinz-Zemanek Preis) and the venia docendi in computer science (2000) from the University of Vienna. Before joining Johannes Kepler University of Linz (JKU Linz) in October 2002, she was working as a researcher and teacher at the University of Vienna (1991-2001), at the Vienna University for Economics and Business Administration (2001) and at the Copenhagen Business School (2002).

Since 2002, Gabriele Kotsis is holding a full professor position in computer science at JKU Linz. She is chairing the Department of Telecooperation with a research focus in mobile computing, multimedia and hypermedia systems as well as cooperative and collaborative systems. Research in those areas includes the investigation of methods, techniques and tools for system development as well as evaluation and analysis with focus on performance evaluation. The Department is participating in numerous national and international projects, including CRUISE, a European network of excellence in sensor networks, EuroFGI, a network of excellence on Future Generation Internet, the AustrianGrid project, or ModelCVS a project on semantics in SW and system modelling, and actively involved in the organisation of international conferences, including for example iiWAS and MoMM.

Prof. Kotsis is author of numerous publications in international conferences and journals and is co-editor of several books. She is member of the OCG and the ACM. From April 2003 to April 2007 she was president of the Austrian Computer Society.

Since October 2008 she is Vice Rector for Research at the JKU Linz.