Wolfgang Ziegler
Head of Grid Middleware Research Group, Fraunhofer Institute SCAI, Germany


Wolfgang Ziegler is head of Grid Middleware Research Group in the Department of Bioinformatics of the Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI).
His research areas are Grid Computing, Resource Management and Scheduling, Management of Virtual Organisations, Service Oriented Architectures, and Service Level Agreements. He was active in the US Grid Forum since 1999, he was a co-founder of the European EGRID in 1999 and since 2001 he was co-chairing several working groups of the Open Grid Forum. Currently he is co-chairing the Grid Resource Allocation Agreement Protocol Working Group (GRAAP-WG), which develops WS-Agreement, a proposed recommendation for an XML language for specifying service level agreements between a resource/service providers and consumers, and a protocol for creation of the agreements.
He has been and is programme committee member of a number of conferences and workshops in the field of Distributed Computing and Grids. He is participating as work-package leader or coordinator in several national and European Grid projects, e.g. VIOLA, D-Grid, the CoreGRID Network of Excellence, PHOSPHORUS.