Justus Bross, born in 1979 in the city of Bonn (Germany), graduated from the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands with a master degree (M.Sc.) in International Business, earned a master degree in engineering (MBE) from the Steinbeis academy and the D.E.L.E language diplomaat the University of Salamanca in Spain. He wrote his final thesis about the disruptive character of VoIP in collaboration with Deutsche Telekom AG.
Currently, he is a doctoral candidate at the Hasso-Plattner Institute in Potsdam under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel, chair for Internet Technologies and Systems. Justus heads several projects and published several papers in the research area of the collaborative- and social web in general, and weblogs in particular.