Profile of Stella Gatziu Grivas

Stella Gatziu Grivas received her PhD from the University of Zurich in the area of active databases under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Klaus Dittrich. Her work in the project SAMOS focused on an extensive event language and on a mechanism for complex event detection. SAMOS was one of the first open source active database systems offering complex event processing. After the completion of her PhD, Stella stayed at the Group of Klaus Dittrich as a senior assistant. She worked on a framework for constructing active mechanisms unbundled from the database system. She also initiated the work in data warehousing with focus on the incremental refreshment of a data warehouse. She was project leader for a KTI-funded project in workflow management

After that Stella moved to Credit Suisse as a senior consultant for IT Strategy. She gained practical experience on technology management and on how to bring technology innovation in a company.

Since August 2007 is a full professor at the institute of information systems at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern of Switzerland. She is a lecturer in the bachelor and master studies for databases, innovation management, data warehousing and cloud computing. Stella is the dean of the CAS IT Management and of the MAS Business Information Systems.

Stella's current research interests are in the area of cloud computing including

- basic research with the proposal of an activity service for the cloud in cooperation with the university of Hannover

- applied research in cloud governance and the usability of cloud services in cooperation with cloud providers and cloud users in Switzerland

Stella is in the management board of the cloud suisse organization (www.cloudsuisse.org)