Main Responsibilities

• Application Area Leader – Information Security / Intelligent Information Management
• Co-ordination of Business Development – Security Research and Transportation Telematics
• Co-ordination – Research Area “Future Internet”

Career

Christian Derler leads the application area „Information Security“ and co-ordinates Business Development in the areas of Security Research and Transport Telematics. He is a member of the management team at the DIGITAL – Institute of Information- and Communication Technologies. During the last couple of years he successfully managed to set-up the application area of security research. Currently his research interests cover the topics information security, crisis management and decision support as well as "Future Internet" particularly Internet of Services and 3D Internet. Furthermore, he gives special attention to the application area of eCulture, especially to the topic of "virtual exhibition rooms".
He has been in charge of a long-time co-operation with the Technical Museum in Vienna which resulted in the development of the software product eXhibition:editor3D.

Before that his research work dealt with applications of modern Web technologies, services and standards with a focus on the use of geographic and multimedia information. He has been project manager of several national and European research projects. Moreover, he has done a number of consulting activities in line with the technology transfer mission of the company. His professional training includes a number of seminars and courses in management, organisation and leadership.

Before the start of his career at JOANNEUM RESEARCH in 1995 he was software developer in the Hyper-G team at the Institute for Information Processing and Computer Supported New Media at Graz University of Technology where he also obtained his master degree in Information Technology in 1995. The title of his thesis was "The World Wide Web Gateway to Hyper-G: Using a Connectionless Protocol to Access Session-Oriented Services".

• AREA-MUMOSIS - Multimodal security system
• BRIDGE-IT - Bringing Innovative Developments for Geographic Information Technology
• EXPERIMEDIA – Experiments in live social and networked media experiences
• MIT-RFID-Lab – Mastering the Internet of Things
• MoSeS4eGov - Model-based Security System for eGoverment
• REGEO - Multimedia Geoinformation for e-Communities in Rural Areas with Eco-Tourism
• SERSCIS - Semantically Enhanced Resilient and Secure Critical Infrastructure Services
• TRIDEC - Collaborative, Complex and Critical Decision-Support in Evolving Crises
• iObserve
• ways2gether - Zielgruppenspezifischer Einsatz von Augmented Reality und Web 2.0 in partizipativen Verkehrsplanungsprozessen

• Accessing Hyper-G servers with WWW clients
• Agile Service Oriented Architecture with Adaptive Processes Using Semantically Annotated Workflow Templates
• Best Practice for SMEs - Prominent Experiences for the Future
• Creating 3D Virtual Exhibitions
• Dynamic Service Orchestration Using Human and Machine Interpretable System Knowledge with Associated Graphical Software Tools
• Making Business Processes Adaptive Through Semantically Enhanced Workflow Descriptions
• National Park Information System
• ReGeo - ein Tourismus-GeoInformationssystem für ländliche Gebiete
• Tangible Culture - Designing Virtual Exhibitions on Multi-Touch Devices
• The World-Wide Web Gateway to Hyper-G: Using a Connectionless Protocol to Access Session-Oriented Services
• Using Standardized Methods To Present Three-Dimensional Content On The Web In The Context Of Cultural Heritage
• Video Assisted Geographical Information Systems
• Video Documentation of Urban Areas
• Vom Archiv ins Web - Der Königsweg zur virtuellen Ausstellung?