Prof. Dr. Markus Bader studied linguistics and psychology at the University of Freiburg. He completed his Ph.D. in 1994. Markus Bader currently holds the chair of Psycho- and Neurolinguistics at the University of Frankfurt. His research interests focus on normal and impaired processes of language comprehension and language production. ••••• Dr. Yvonne Cleary is a lecturer in Technical Communication, and Program Director for the M.A. in Technical Communication and E-Learning at the University of Limerick, Ireland. She holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in technical communication. Her research interests include professional issues in technical communication, technical communication pedagogy, virtual teams, and international technical communication. She has presented her work at conferences in Europe and the United States and has published in leading journals in the technical communication field, including Technical Communication, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, and IEEE Transactions in Professional Communication. She is a 2014 recipient of the CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication award for Best Article on Pedagogy or Curriculum in Technical or Scientific Communication. ••••• Prof. Sissi Closs is Professor of Information and Media Technology at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences and CEO of C-Topic Consulting. She is one of the leading German experts in the field of technical communication. She is an internationally well-known lecturer and consultant for XML and information architecture. Sissi Closs has defined the class concept method® for developing flexible frameworks for Topic and Link classes®. As a specialist for topic-based structuring, she belongs to the DITA pioneers and has designed and implemented the first DITA implementation in Germany at Deutsche Post. She is also the author of a number of books about single source publishing, topic-based structuring, and mobile documentation. ••••• Dr. Michael Fritz holds a Ph.D. in media sciences and a degree in business administration and specializes in marketing. He worked for several associations, e.g. as head of an institute for lifelong learning. Since 1996 he is CEO of Gesellschaft für Technische Kommunikation – tekom Deutschland e.V. and since 2013 also CEO of Europe’s largest association for technical communication – tekom Europe e.V. He is also CEO of tcworld GmbH, a company providing services for tekom / tekom Europe. ••••• Prof. Dr. Georg Löckinger holds a Master’s degree and a Ph.D. in translation studies from the University of Vienna. His award-winning doctoral thesis deals with translation-oriented reference tools and includes an empirical study on the information needs of professional translators. Since September 2013, Georg Löckinger has been a professor of technical communication at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria. Apart from his academic work, Georg Löckinger has extensive hands-on experience as a translator and terminologist in various professional settings. Furthermore, he is actively involved in national and international standardization with regard to language technologies and language resource management. ••••• Prof. Dr. Birgitta Meex is an Assistant Professor of German and Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts, Subfaculty of Language and Communication of the University of Leuven in Antwerp. She received her Ph.D. in German Linguistics from the University of Leuven in 2001. She is a Certified Trainer in Technical Communication (tekom) and is actively engaged in tekom Belgium. Her research is inspired by the desire to incorporate the disciplines of discourse analysis and cognitive linguistics. She has published research articles in the fields of cognitive semantics, corporate communication and technical and medical communication. ••••• Prof. Dr. Michael Meng studied German Linguistics and Psycho-linguistics at the University of Jena and the University of Edinburgh. After completing his Ph.D. on syntactic analysis during reading in 1998, he worked as a technical writer and later on as the Department Manager of Documentation and Localization for a local software company. In 2012, Michael Meng was appointed Professor for Applied Linguistics at Hochschule Merseburg (University of Applied Sciences) where he now teaches courses on text analysis, text production, and cognitive psychology in the B.Eng. and M.A. programs on Technical Communication. ••••• Dr. Sandrine Peraldi is Research Director at ISIT and holds a Ph.D. in Terminology and Corpus Linguistics (University Paris Diderot). Dr. Peraldi has been in charge of Research projects and European Projects at ISIT since 2006. She lectures in Terminology, Corpus Linguistics, Translation Studies, CAT tools and Machine translation. She also supervises Masters research dis-sertations. As a member of the CRATIL and the CLILLAC-ARP (Paris 7) research centres, she has published more than 30 research articles in the field of onto-terminology, discourse analysis, semantics, and machine translation. She is Editor in chief of the Bulletin du CRATIL, the scientific journal of ISIT’s research centre. ••••• Dr. Daniela Straub, graduated in Psychology, has been working for tekom consultancy projects since 2003. For tekom she conducts empirical studies in the field of technical communication. She organizes and leads the tekom benchmarking workshops for the heads of departments of technical communication from several companies. Furthermore she is involved in the development of the tekom further education guideline and certification system for technical communicators.
