SAP AG, SAP Research, Germany

SAP is the world's leading provider of business software, offering applications and services that enable companies of all sizes across more than 25 industries to become best-run businesses. With more than 105,000 customers in over 120 countries, the company is listed on several exchanges, including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE, under the symbol "SAP."

SAP Research is the global technology research unit of SAP. The group significantly contributes to SAP's product portfolio and extends its leading position in the market by identifying and shaping emerging IT trends and generating breakthrough technologies through applied research.

In contrast to SAP's product groups and development labs that work on new functions and releases, the researchers explore opportunities that haven't yet been developed into products.

SAP Research spreads its research and development activities around the globe. Currently, their thriving network comprises of 13 locations worldwide, including their headquarters in Walldorf, and numerous partners from the business and academic worlds.

More information: http://www.sap.com/research.

Key Staff

• Dr. Martin Johns studied Mathematics and Computer Science at the Universities of Göttingen, Santa Cruz (CA) and Hamburg where he received his diploma in 2003. During the 1990ties and the early years of the new millennium he earned his living as a software engineer in German companies (including Infoseek Germany, TC Trustcenter and SAP). 2005 he joined the "Security in Distributed Systems" group at the University of Hamburg to work on the project SECOLOGIC, which was investigating the state of the art in web and software security. He finished his PhD thesis on web application security in July 2009 at the University of Passau. Since December 2009, he holds a position as senior researcher at the SAP Research Center in Karlsruhe, Germany.