  I moved from <a href="http://www.karlsruhe.de">Karlsruhe,</a> Germany to Seattle in fall 94. For those interested in geography, Karlsruhe is located in the southwest of Germany, in the state of <a href=" http://www.bawue.de/">Baden-W&uuml;rttemberg</a>. I grew up in another part of that state, in the district of <a href="http://www.regios.com/">  Biberach </a> in Upper Swabia (Oberschwaben).  Before coming to the UW I studied Computer Science at the <a href="http://www.ira.uka.de/">University of Karlsruhe </a> from which I obtained a "Diplom" (M.S.) in Computer Science in 1992.   I also spent one year at <a href="http://www.cs.umass.edu/">UMass </a> as a <a href=" http://www.cies.org/www/alumnihome.html"> Fulbright</a> grantee. My main research interests are parallel and distributed computing, object-oriented systems and compilers. Currently I am working on  <a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/projects/unisw/DynComp/www/"> dynamic compilation</a>.<p>
