Dr. Stephan Stecglich is director of the competence center Future Applications and Media (FAME) at Fraunhofer FOKUS. He received his M.Sc. in computer science (in 1998) and PhD (in 2003) in Computer Science from the TU Berlin. His fields of interest include, e.g., context-awareness, user-interaction, and service front-ends. In 1998 and 1999 he has worked intensively in the research area of Intelligent Mobile Agents.

Since 1999 he has started research activities in the area of user-centric communication. He has been involved in a number of projects that were related to Human-Machine-Interaction, UMTS/VHE, personalization and user profiling.

Currently Stephan is working the area next generation Web platform for cross-platform and cross-device applications and media. He is managing international and national level research activities and has been an organizer and a member of program committees of several international conferences. He is actively participating in standardization activities in these research areas and was initiator and the coordinator of the EC funded www.webinos.org project.