Jan Dünnweber

Jan Dünnweber is a german computer scientist. He studied in Munich (Bavaria) and has been working as a researcher in high-performance computing at the University of Münster (North Rhine-Westphalia) from 2003, where he finished his Ph.D. thesis in 2008.

Beyond his research work, Jan Dünnweber is an instructor for Java Technologies, a software architect and a Senior IT Consultant. He serves customers in Frankfurt and Munich. Currently, Jan lives in Munich.

His research work focuses on programming methodologies for grids, especially Higher-Order Components (HOCs) which he invented for simplifying the use of modern grid platforms. His book "Higher-Order Components for Grid Programming, Making Grids More Useable" which he wrote together with Sergei Gorlatch is an extended version of his Ph.D. thesis and explains his idea of Higher-Order Components in the context of other recent developments, such as Cloud Computing and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). A review of this book can be found in the ZMATH Online Database: http://www.zentralblatt-math.org/zmath/en/search/?q=an:1179.68015&format=complete

Jan Dünnweber is also the author of various research papers published by Springer, Elsevier, IEEE, ACM etc. Many of these papers appeared in the Springer CoreGRID Series, as Jan Dünnweber was an active member of the CoreGRID Network of Excellence (coregrid.net) where he coordinated the activities of the research group on component communication form 2004-2008.