Michael Menzel studied business informatics at the University of Mannheim. During his studies he deepend his skills in the fields of logistics, distributed systems, e-business/e-government, business administration/information systems and database systems. Michael finished his studies and obtained his Diplom in business informatics in 2009. He wrote his diploma thesis on the subject "Design and Implementation of a Tool to create Queries in Complex Event Processing Systems"  in cooperation with Software AG, Darmstadt, at the chair of the Assistant Professor for Computer Science (Information Systems), Prof. Carl-Christian Kanne.

Since November 2009, Michael works at FZI as a research scientist in the IPE group and is in involved in the field of cloud computing.

current projects:

- CloudEnabling with T-Labs

- Cloud Demonstrator with SAP Research

research interests:

- location-related cloud computing

- databases in cloud architectures

- SLA-orientierted cloud computing