Sven received his Diploma in computer science (M.Sc. in computer science) and his Dr.-Ing. (PhD) from Technical University Berlin (TUB), Germany, in 1996 and 2002 respectively. From 1997 until 2002 he was Research Associate at the department for Open Communication Systems (OKS) at the Institute for Telecommunication System, Faculty IV, Technical University Berlin, and deputy head of the Competence Centre OKS at Fraunhofer FOKUS. He worked in several national and international projects, including ‘ IN/TMN integration ’, the TINA auxiliary project ‘ PCS in TINA ’ and the IST project AlbatrOSS. Areas of interest covered Unified Messaging, OSS for 3G systems, location-based services, eLearning and middleware and management integration. He lectured at TUB and consulted for IKV++ Technologies AG in Broadband Networks, Management of Distributed Systems, Ubiquitous Computing and Mobile Communications.

Since November 2002, Sven has been a research fellow at the Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG) at the Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) in Waterford, Ireland. He was leader of the M-Zones programme, a four year research programme developing concepts for managing smart spaces. Additionally, he is working on a number of FP6 proposals and supervising of postgraduate and PhD students. Since October 2004 he is Senior Investigator of the new founded Competence Centre for Communication Infrastructure Management (CIM) at TSSG.

In 2005, Sven took over the technical lead of a four year basic research programme investigating in the foundations of Autonomic Management of Communication Services and Networks (AMCNS), funded by the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). Based on this, he also started working in the TeleManagement Forum, an international industrial standardisation body. He is involved in the Architecture and Information Modelling teams in the TMF, and has served as editor for Technological Neutral Architecture TNA, TMF053) and the concept of Contracts (TMF053B) within the TM Forum. He also contributed to the policy models of the Shared Information and Date Model (SID, GB922).

Sven is actively contributing to academic research communities by participating in Technical Programme Committees of a number of conferences (i.e. DSOM, GIIS). Sven was part of the team that created the International Workshop on Management of Ubiquitous Communications and Services (MUCS) in 2003 and the IEEE International Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments (MACE) in 2006. He was co-organiser of MANWEEK 2006 in Dublin and is member of the Organisation Committees of MANWEEK 2007 and Autonomic Networking 2007. Sven has more than 50 peer-reviewed publications, provided one book chapter, edited two books and given a number of tutorials on conferences and workshops.