Marcel Kunze

Dr. Marcel Kunze is a leading scientist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Heading the cloud computing lab at EMCL and the research group cloud computing at SCC, Dr. Marcel Kunze performs systems research in the area of dynamic and scalable web based services. He is committed to R&D in the field of service oriented architectures, virtualization techniques and system development for cloud computing. His working groups are engaged in many national and international research projects such as the international Open Cirrus cloud computing testbed under the sponsorship of HP, Intel and Yahoo! He is a member of the editorial board of the GSTF International Journal on Computing and the new Springer Journal of Cloud Computing.

Dr. Kunze received a PhD in Physics at Karlsruhe University in 1990 and finished a habilitation thesis on artificial neural systems at Bochum University in 1996. Since then he joined SLAC / Stanford University to investigate and further develop the Grid Computing paradigm for distributed processing of particle physics data. As an associate professor he was teaching particle physics, distributed computing and software design.