He received his Ph.D. in information technology from the College of Information Science and Technology at?the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He holds a master’s in telecommunications from Michigan State University and a Diplom Ingenieur (Dipl.-Ing.) in electrical engineering from RWTH in Aachen, Germany. His research interests include collaboration technology, online communities, virtual teams, social network, health informatics and telecommunication. He has published and presented his works in the International Journal of e-Collaboration and e-Service Journal as well as conferences such as AMCIS, HICSS and MWAIS. Before entering the academic world, he worked in the IT industry as a design engineer, project manager and business manager. He has experience studying and working in several countries, including Germany, Indonesia and the United Arab Emirates.