Dr. rer. nat. Ralf Klamma

Dr. rer. nat. Ralf Klamma has a diploma degree (1995) and a doctoral degree (2000) both in computer science from the technical university of Aachen (RWTH Aachen) for works on process centered requirements engineering environments resp. on repositories for organizational memory systems.

He worked in several international and national projects, mostly in an interdisciplinary work setting in areas like requirements engineering, quality management, improvement management, and knowledge management. Currently, Ralf Klamma leads the research group “metadata in community information systems” at the information systems chair, RWTH Aachen. He is work package leader in the PROLEARN Network of Excellence in Professional Learning (Social Software) and substitute member of the PROLEARN executive board. He is also project leader in the collaborative research center “Media and Cultural Communication”.

His research covers information systems theory, the application of information systems in engineering, cultural sciences, and virtual communities, technology enhanced learning, social software, social network analysis, organizational memory systems, and new product development.

• In 2001, he spent several months as a visiting fellow at the MIT Entrepreneurship Center of Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to experience Entrepreneurship Teaching and Research.
• In 2002, he chaired the international symposium "Designing Digital Media" together with Matthias Jarke and Volker Wulf. 
• In summer term 2004 he took over a stand-in professorship for media informatics at the TU Chemnitz, faculty of computer science and in winter term 2004/05 a stand-in professorship for dialog-oriented systems at the University of Passau, faculty of mathematics and computer science.
  
• In 2005 he organised the First PROLEARN Summer School for Technology Enhanced Learning in Sile, Turkey.
  

He is editor-in-chief of the Central European Information Server SunSITE CEUR, the PROLEARN Academy and the Multimedia Metadata Community. He has published in various research journals and conference proceedings. He is or has been reviewer for international journals like Information Systems or Information Systems Frontiers and conferences including ICIS, CAiSE, CHI, CSCL and others. He is member of the German Informatics Society.