Florian is a researcher at the Service Computing group of TU Dortmund. He received his diploma in physics in 2009.
As a member of the LHCb collaboration he participated in the development of the DIRAC Grid Framework from 2007 to 2009. Since then he continued with research work in the area of large-scale Systems, Cloud standardization, and Cloud interoperability. He is participating in the standardization of the Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) and is one of the main developers of the integration of OCCI and CDMI into the OpenNebula Cloud Toolkit.