Education:
1991 - 1998: Studies of computer science with a focus on communications systems and a subsidiary subject in electrical engineering at the University of Technology Aachen, Germany

Promotion (Dr. rer. nat.):
2003: “Service Interoperability in Ubiquitous Computing Environments“ at the department of computer science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany

Professional Life:

1988 - 1990	Employment as assistant with MICOS in Würselen, Germany
1990 - 1998	Part-time employment as software developer and system engineer with MICOS in Würselen, Germany, collateral to my studies
1998 - 2000	Full-time employment as project engineer and team leader with MICOS in Würselen, Germany
2000 - now	Employment as research associate at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) at the Institute for Communications and Navigation in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
2004 - now	Employment (50%) as Univ.-Prof. at the University of Innsbruck, Austria; Reduction of employment at DLR by 50%; Lecturer at the University of Munich
Jan - Mar 2005	Visiting Researcher at National ICT Australia (NICTA), Sydney, Australia

Publications:

Scientific Publications

Reviewed Publications

• Jens Meggers, Thomas Strang, Anthony Sang-Bum Park: A Video Gateway to Support Video Streaming to Mobile Clients. ACTS Mobile Communication Summit, Aalborg, October 1997, (1997)
  
• Angermann, M., Kammann, J., Robertson, P., Steingaß, A., Strang, T.: Software Representation for Heterogeneous Data Sources Within A Probabilistic Framework. International Symposium on Location Based Services for Cellular Users, Munich/Germany, Feb. 2001, DGON, Proceedings LOCELLUS 2001, (2001)
  
• Angermann, M., Kammann, J., Kuehndel, F., Robertson, P., Steingass, A., Strang, T.: Heywow - Enjoyable Mobile Commerce. Pervasive Computing 2001, Gaithersburg, Maryland, May 1-2, 2001, NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology, (2001)
  
• Kammann, J., Strang, T., Wendlandt, K.: Mobile services over short range communication. Commercial Radio Sensor and Communication Techniques CRSCT01, Linz, 23.8.2001, Institute for Communications and Information Engineering, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, Proceedings of CRSCT 2001, Universitätsverlag Rudolf Trauner, (2001)
  
• Dorsch, Th., Robertson, P., Sakarelis, I., Strang, T., Schiek, U.: Security Aspects of the Multimedia Car Platform. Workshop on Multiradio Multimedia Communications, Berlin, 22. - 23. November 2001, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut Berlin, Workshop on Multiradio Multimedia Communications (MMC 2001), (2001)
  
• Strang, T., Meyer, M.: Agent-Environment for Small Mobile Devices. 9th HP OpenView University Association (HP-OVUA) Workshop, June 11-13, 2002 - via video conference, HP OpenView University Association (HP-OVUA), HPOVUA: Electronic Proceedings, (2002)
  
• Angermann, M., Kammann, J., Kühndel, F., Robertson, P., Strang, T., et al.: The Heywow System for Location Based Services: Combining Navigation, Distributed Services and Intelligent Mobile Devices. Networlds VDE-Kongress 2002, Dresden, 21. - 23. 10. 2002, VDE, VDE Kongress NetWorlds 2002, (2002)
  
• Strang, T, Sakarelis, I, Dorsch, T, Robertson, P.: Contract Based Late Security Binding. Eurescom Summit 2002: Powerful Networks for Profitable Services, Heidelberg/Germany, 21 - 24 October 2002, VDE, Proceedings EURESCOM Summit 2002, (2002)
  
• Strang, T., Linnhof-Popien, C.: Service Interoperability on Context Level in Ubiquitous Computing Environments. International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Education, Science, Medicine, and Mobile Technologies on the Internet, L'Aquila, Italy, 6-12 January 2003, Proceedings of SSGRR 2003w, (2003)
  
• Strang, T.: Towards Autonomous Context-Aware Services for Smart Mobile Devices. 4th International Conference on Mobile Data Management, Melbourne, Australia, 21-24 January, 2003, Proceedings of MDM 2003, S. 279 ff, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, (2003)
  
• Strang, T., Linnhoff-Popien, C.: Service Interoperabilität auf Kontextebene. (Service interoperability on context level). Workshop XML-Technologies for Middleware / Middleware for XML-Applications, Berlin/Germany, February 2003, Proceedings of XMIDX 2003, (2003)
  
• Strang, T., Linnhoff-Popien, C., Roeckl, M.: Highlevel Service Handover through a Contextual Framework. 8th International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Communications, Munich, Germany, October 5-8 2003, Center for Digital Technology and Management, Proceedings of MoMuC 2003, (2003)
  
• Strang, T., Linnhoff-Popien, C., Frank, K.: Applications of a Context Ontology Language. International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks, Split, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Ancona, Venice, Italy, October 7-10, 2003, FESB, University of Split, Proceedings of SoftCOM 2003, (2003)
  
• Strang, T., Linnhoff-Popien, C., Frank, K.: Integration Issues of an Ontology based Context Modelling Approach. IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2003, Algarve, Portugal, 5-8 November 2003, IADIS – International Association for Development of the Information Society, Proceedings of ICWI2003, (2003)
  
• Strang, T., Linnhoff-Popien, C., Frank, K.: CoOL: A Context Ontology Language to enable Contextual Interoperability. 4th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications & Interoperable Systems, Paris, France, November 17-21, 2003, International Federation for Information Processing IFIP, LNCS 2893: Proceedings of 4th IFIP WG 6.1, (2003)
  
• Strang, T., Linnhoff-Popien, C.: A Context Modeling Survey. Workshop on Advanced Context Modelling, Reasoning and Management as part of UbiComp 2004 - The Sixth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Nottingham/England, September 2004
  
• Strang, T., Kammann, J., Robertson, P., Angermann, M., Dorsch, T., Wasel, C., Wendlandt, K.: Experiences from Ramping Up an Environment for Mobile Information Access. Workshop on Mobile and Ubiquitous Information Access (MUIA 2004) as part of Mobile HCI '04 - 6th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Glasgow/Scotland, September 2004
  
• Angermann, M., Strang, T., Kähmer, M., Kreutzer, M.: Rapidly Deployable Infrastructures for Communications and Localization in Disaster Management. United Nations International Workshop on the Use of Space Technology for Disaster Management, Munich, Germany, 18-22 October, 2004
  
• Angermann, M., Robertson, P., Strang, T.: Issues and Requirements for Bayesian Approaches in Context Aware Systems. Workshop on Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA 2005), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, 12./13. May, 2005

Journals and Books

• Angermann, M., Kammann, J., Strang, T.: Eine Plattform für den M-Commerce. (A m-commerce platform). Technik in Bayern, Issue Jan/Feb. 2001, (2001)
  
• Angermann, M., Kammann, J., Kühndel, F., Robertson, P., Strang, T., Wendlandt, K.: Ortsbezogene mobile Dienste über heterogene Netze, Teil 1. (Location-aware mobile services in heterogeneous networks, part 1). NTZ (Nachrichtentechnische Zeitschrift), 55, 4/2002, (2002), S. 24-26
  
• Angermann, M., Kammann, J., Kühndel, F., Robertson, P., Strang, T., Wendlandt, K.: Ortsbezogene mobile Dienste über heterogene Netze, Teil 2. (Location-aware mobile services in heterogeneous networks, part 2). NTZ (Nachrichtentechnische Zeitschrift), 55, 5/2002, (2002), S. 32-35
  
• Strang, T., Linnhoff-Popien, C.: Mobility as key driver for Ubiquitous Services. Handbook of Research on Mobile Business, to appear 2005

Other Publications

• Strang, T.: Entwurf und Bewertung eines Gateways zur Unterstützung von Videoübertragung über drahtlose Netze. (Design and evaluation of a gateway to support video transmissions over wireless networks). Diploma Thesis, University of Technology (RWTH) Aachen, (1997)
  
• Strang, T.: Technical Report IB 554-01/06: Bluetooth integration into CLDC/MIDP. DLR-IB, April 2001, (2001)
  Strang, T.: Technical Report IB 554-03/02: Vergleich von Wissensmodellen. (A comparison of knowledge representation models). DLR-IB, September 2003, (2003)
  
• Strang, T.: Service-Interoperabilität in Ubiquitous Computing Umgebungen. (Service interoperability in ubiquitous computing environments). PhD dissertation, ISBN 3-8007-2, LMU Munich, (2003)

Invited Talks & Presentations

• Strang, T., Angermann, M.: Heywow - A service platform for the needs of people on the move. 5th Jini Community Meeting, Amsterdam, 10./11.12.2000, Sun Microsystems, (2000)
  
• Strang, T: Heywow - Eine innovative Plattform für Mobile Dienste. Scientific colloquium at DLR, OP, 17.09.2001, DLR, (2001)
  
• Strang, T.: Towards Autonomous Context-Aware Services for Smart Mobile Devices. Scientific colloquium, Munich, 12.03.2002, LMU Munich, (2002)
  
• Strang, T.: Service-Interoperabilität. Scientific colloquium, Munich, 24.07.2003, LMU Munich, (2003)
  
• Strang, T: Trends in Mobile Computing - From Mobile Phone to Context-Aware Service Platform. Invited presentation at the 38. DFN Betriebstagung, Berlin, 4./5.3.2003, Deutsches Forschungsnetz (DFN) Verein, (2003)
  
• Strang, T: Are we already at the dead end of context modelling and retrieval? Invited talk at the workshop on Modelling and Retrieval of Context (MRC 2004) as part of the 27th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2004), 20./21. September 2004, Ulm, Germany (2004)
  
• Strang, T: To know where to go – Semantics in eTourism. Invited talk at the 12th International Conference On Information Technology and Travel & Tourism (ENTER 2005), 26.-28. February 2005, Innsbruck, Austria (2005)
  
• Strang, T: Context Modelling for Ubiquitous Computing. Invited talk at the Basser seminar series, Networks & Systems Lab, University of Sydney (USYD), 9. February 2005, Sydney, Australia (2005)
  
• Strang, T: SoftLocations. Invited talk at the Networks and Pervasive Computing group of the National ICT Australia (NICTA), 17. February 2005, Sydney, Australia (2005)
  
• Strang, T: Challenges of Designing Services for Smart Mobile Devices. Invited talk at the information technology seminar series at the University of Technology (UTS), 23. February 2005, Sydney, Australia (2005)