He holds a M.Sc. degree in computer science from the University of Oslo in 2000. He has been doing research and development on model-driven software engineering, software development methods, service-oriented and component-based software architectures, enterprise interoperability and data management since 2000. His current research focuses on data-and-platform-as-a-service, data management, linked data, big data and data pipelines. He has experience as technical manager and work package leader from a number of European projects in FP5, FP6, FP7 and H2020