Alexander Lenk studied "Information Engineering and Management" at the Universität Karlsruhe (TH). Besides his studies he worked as a tutor and student assistant at the AIFB where he helped to supervise the course "Applied Computer Science II". In April 2009 he finished his studies. He wrote his Diplom thesis at the FZI/AIFB in cooperation with HP Labs (Palo Alto).

Since 2009 Alexander works as a research scientist at the FZI and is doing his PhD at the KIT with the main topic "Cloud Computing". In the summer 2010 he is supervising the course "Applied Computer Science II" and is active in several cloud computing projects at the FZI.

Research interests in the main topic Cloud Computing:

• Deployment of komplex applications
• Monitoring
• Infrastructure services
• Dynamic Landscapes
• Cloud plattforms and plattform architectures
• New Cloud Computing software patterns