Dr. Dennis Wendland is a Technical Lead and Architect at the FIWARE Foundation where he is involved in a variety of projects in the field of data spaces. He holds a doctorate in high energy physics from Humboldt University of Berlin gaining a broad experience in the development of particle collision data analysis software and the statistical analysis of large data sets. His doctoral dissertation was about the search of new elementary particles at high-energy collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Geneva. After his doctorate, he has also worked at T-Systems and Deutsche Telekom AG acquiring expertise in the development, architecture and management of large software projects.