Frank Leymann

Frank Leymann is a German computer scientist and mathematician, born on 25 September 1957 in Bochum. He is professor of computer science at the University of Stuttgart in Germany, where he is the director and founder of the Institute of Architecture of Application Systems (IAAS). His Wikipedia infobox lists his areas of work as software architecture, large scale distributed systems, business process management, service-oriented architecture, cloud computing, pattern languages and quantum computing. He has also worked at IBM Research and Development in Germany and at the University of Bochum, where he studied and wrote a 1984 thesis on foliations of spaces with singularities.