Michael Veith lwas a student worker for Prof. Dr. Volker Wulf at the University of Siegen in the field of cooperations- and media systems from 01/2004 to 03/2006. Since 2006 he is employed at the Institute for Information Systems and New Media as a ph.d student. There he works on topics related to social and organizational changes in society which are stimulated by the use of novel information and communication technologies.

He studied english linguistics, psychologies and informatics (Magister) at der the University of Siegen. His master thesis dealt especially with the question of how ethnic minorities in Germany may be better integrated into society by the help of computer supported cooperative project work. These projects at an elementary school are furthermore realized by mixing generations (parents with children) as well as socio-cultural backgrounds.

Scientifically he works in two projecs: First in the project *WIN *(knowledge management in heterogeneously nets) in Frankfurt. In this project the 'Fachverband Landtechnik' in the VDMA (Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbauer - German Engineering Federation) is exemplarily researched, how knowledge can be technicaly interconected and make transparent for participants. This research is done in focus of a better service for the involked members/firms.

Secondly in the project *come_IN *in the Marienschool in the old town of Bonn. In this School there is a Computer Club for primary pupils and the parents of them. Especially there are turks in the old town adressed, to cooperate in the club and realise together an intercultural project at the computer. On this way barriers between the german and the turkish citizens should be reduced and a common identity of the citizens in the old town of Bonn can be build (immigrant (sub-)cultures).

studied Sociology, Communication Science & Phonetics and Educational Science at the University of Bonn and earned a degree as Master of Arts (Magister Artium, M.A.) early 2005. Additionally he became a certified project manager in February 2006.

From 1998 to 2000 he worked as a student research assistant in the European project Integrated Cooperation-Management in Network-Organisations (InKoNetz) at University of Bonn, Germany, Institute of Computer Science III, Research Group on HCI and CSCW (ProSEC). Between 2001 and 2005 he was active as student research assistant in the Research Group Evaluation & Design of Cooperation Systems at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT, Germany.

Since January 2007 he is a Researcher at the National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS) at the University of Manchester (UK) in various national and international research projects. Applying qualitative & quantitative methods, CSCW and Participatory Design his research activities encompass adoption, use and evaluation of socio-technical Systems (modern ICT, e-Infrastructures, e-science & e-social science, GRID technologies) in diverse domains of research and higher education, and also user-driven processes in the development of modern e-Infrastructures and software applications.

Markus Won studied at the university of bonn with the focus on CSCW, software technology, and databases. As a junior researcher he worked in the research group "HCI and CSCW" (ProSEC) at the institute of computer science of the university of bonn. There he carried out several third-party funded research projects in the field of integrated organizational and technological development, CSCW, knowledge management and eLearning. In the field of software-architectures his main focus lays on the design of adaptive software systems. In this context the newly started project "Content Sensitive Intelligence" (CSI) has the aim to develop a middleware for the configuration of highly customizable and adaptive systems for mobile devices.

Furthermore Markus Won gave lectures at the B-It (Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology). Topics of those lectures were: Object-Oriented Software Construction and Organizational Requirements Engineering

From 2005 to 2006 he worked for CONET AG and daGama BT GmbH in the are of Travel Management as a Requirements Engineer and Consultant. One of his key activities there was Usability Engineering.

Since 2007 he is employed at Deutsche Post World Net AG as Senior IT-Expert (Analysis and Design).

You can find further information on his private web site www.markuswon.de