Wolfgang Blochinger received his diploma in Computer Science in 1998 and his PhD in 2002, both from the University of Tübingen (Germany). He is currently working as senior scientist at the Wilhelm-Schickard-Institute for Computer Science, Tübingen. He leads the systems group at the Symbolic Computing department.

His research interests include High Performance Systems, Parallel SAT Solving, Parallel Programming Models, Grid Computing, P2P Systems, Parallel Computer Graphics, and Information Visualization.

Sven received his diploma in computer science in 2006 from Tübingen University (Germany), where he is currently doing his PhD at the department of Symbolic Computation. Sven is supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under grant BL 941/1-1.

From 2002 to 2003, he worked at MagicMaps GmbH in Tübingen, were he contributed to the development of a distributed rendering system for 3D visualization of maps for automotive applications. In 2003, he worked as an Extreme Blue intern at the IBM Development Lab Böblingen (Germany) on Session sharing technology for portal servers and participated in the IBM student recognition event in Hursley (UK). Between 2004 and 2005, he was employed by TCC Products GmbH (Germany), where he worked on workflow systems and Web 2.0 technology. His research interests include all aspects of Desktop Grid computing and distributed systems in general.

Hannes has been a member the Symbolic Computation Group at University of Tübingen since 2005, working as system administrator managing primarily cluster computing infrastructure and nodes for desktop grid computing. There he also did his student thesis on monitoring with the Cohesion Platform.

In 2010 he received his Diploma in Bioinformatics from Tübingen University (Germany). During his studies he spent the year 2004 at the University of Queensland, Brisbane (Australia).

In August 2010 he followed the Cohesion Team to the Distributed Systems Department at the University of Stuttgart, where he is currently working on his PhD on new Concepts for the Peer-to-Peer Desktop Grid Computing.

Markus received his diploma "with excellence" in computer science in 2006 from Tübingen University (Germany). Afterwards, he joined the Symbolic Computation Group as a PhD student. His research topics include workflow design and grid computing. He participates in the TüBiGrid project, which aims at providing an advanced grid infrastructure for bioinformatics.

In 2003 he took an internship at the Titan Corporation in Washington, D.C., where he designed and implemented a database system for collecting and querying CVs. The internship had been arranged and has been supported by the Steuben-Schurz-Society, the oldest German-American partnership organisation.

Mathias studies Informatics and Mathematics at Tübingen University (Germany) since 2001. He spent one year at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane (Australia) in 2005.

After finishing his student project about visualizing RNA structures he recently joined the Symbolic Computation Group to work on a diploma thesis concerning the XMPP substrate of cohesion.

Tim studies computer science at Tübingen University (Germany) since 2001. He has joined the Symbolic Computation Group in 2005, first working as a tutor for student exercises on operating systems. He developed an Eclipse Plugin for configuring and launching applications for the Distributed Object-Oriented Threads System (DOTS), which has been developed by Dr. Wolfgang Blochinger. Recently he joined the Cohesion Platform project team.

Before his studies he was employed for more than two years as a student trainee for T-Systems (Stuttgart, Germany). From 2004 until 2006, he worked as a software developer for database applications at Bite AG (Filderstadt, Germany).

Besides Desktop Grid computing, Tim is interested in databases. As part of his student research thesis, he implemented an enhanced LDAP administration tool.

Thomas is in his final term in computer science at Tübingen University (Germany). He spent one term in 2005 at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane (Australia).

He first came in touch with the Symbolic Computation Group 2004, when he did his student thesis on integrating Myrinet into the Distributed Object-Oriented Threads System (DOTS), which has been developed by Dr. Wolfgang Blochinger. He recently finished his final thesis on "Systemmanagement using JMX and Web 2.0 Technologies" for managing Cohesion.