Prof. Dr. Florian Matthes, Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Florian Matthes holds the chair Software Engineering for Business Information Systems (sebis) at the Faculty for Informatics of Technische Universität München. The current focus of his research is on enterprise architecture management, model-driven web application engineering and user-centered social software. He is co-founder of four high-tech software and service providers (CoreMedia AG, infoAsset AG, 20six AG , 21publish AG) with more than 160 employees. Since 2003 he serves as dean of studies at the Faculty for Informatics of TU München.

Florian Matthes received his diploma degree in computer science 1988 from the Johann Wolfgang-Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. After graduating with a doctorate in computer science from the University of Hamburg in 1993, he went to the Digital Systems Research Center (now HP SRC Classic) in Palo Alto, USA, with a post-doc fellowship. He then was assistant professor at the University of Hamburg where he contributed to a number of European and transatlantic research projects with a focus on persistent and mobile programming. From 1997 to 2002 he worked as a professor for computer science at the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg in the area of software architectures and programming models for cooperative information systems.

Florian and his wife Nastaran Matthes are proud parents of two daughters (8 and 10 years old).