Maria Wimmer is Professor for eGovernment at the University of Koblenz, Institute for Information Systems Research since November 2005. She studied Computer Science at the University of Linz, Austria. After a two years research stay in Italy (CNR Rome and University of Siena) investigating human factors in safety critical systems, she worked at the University of Linz as a research and teaching assistant. She completed her doctorate in 2000 and her venia docendi (associate professor) in 2003. Since 2000, she researches and teaches application of ICT in the public sector, thereby applying a holistic approach for systems analysis and design. Thematic foci of research are aspects of interoperability, standardisation, systems architectures, semantic web, Web 2.0 usage and information and process management in networked governments and eParticipation. Key is a comprehensive investigation of human aspects, technology, organization and process perspectives in their single consideration as well as in their interrelations and interdependencies (she published a holistic reference model in 2002). Teaching spans across themes of systems analysis, requirements engineering and systems conceptualization, as well as themes of modernization of governments through ICT, and ICT usage in the public sector with varying topics. Maria is involved in a number of EU-co-funded research and development projects in the field. Current projects are: BRITE, R4eGov, PEPPOL, DEMO-net, eGovRTD2020, LEX-IS, MOMENTUM, and VoicE. In Koblenz, she set up an eGov LivingL@b, which provides an experimental collaboration among research and practice to speed up the transfer of new and innovative ICT solutions to the practical application in the government sector, thereby providing also a joint learning and experimentation sites for students. Maria is co-organizer of scientific conferences (main organizer of the annual international EGOV conferences), chair of IFIP WG 8.5, Chair of Germans GI working group on Informatics in law and administration (RVI), member of ACM, IEEE, etc. She has pubished more than 130 articles and edited over 20 books and conference proceedings.