Gabriele Anderst-Kotsis is university professor of Computer Science at JKU Linz. She heads the Department of Telecooperation since 2002, and was Vice Rector for Research from 2007-2015. She holds the Heinz-Zemanek- Award for outstanding scientific publications in Computer Science (1996) and has been recognized as ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2014.

Research interests:

• Software Technologies for Mobile and Internet Computing
• Distributed and Cooperative Systems
• Wireless Networking and Sensor Networks
• Mobile Multimedia, Mobile Commerce, Mobile E-Business
• Computer and Network System Modelling and Simulation
• Performance Evaluation and Capacity Planning
• Workload Characterization for Parallel and Distributed Systems
• Interconnection Topologies for Parallel Processing Systems