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Alexander Norta

Who are you and what do you here?

-My name is Alex Norta, and I am a post doc working on Lea Kutvonen's SOAMeS project.

What is your background, where do you come from?

-The last place I lived in was Eindhoven , the Netherlands , where I worked on my PhD project. I was born in South Africa , and have dual citizenship from South Africa and Austria . My wife is Finnish, so we wanted to move here because it is important to have family around and because Finland is a very nice and prospering country.

- I have an MSc. in business informatics, which could be described as computer science with the objective of automating business and administrative activities. Consequently, business informatics is very applicable in today's networked economies and public administrations. In my PhD project I investigated dynamic inter-organizational business process collaboration for the EU-research project CrossWork.

Everybody should know that I...

- ... am approachable.

In my leisure time, my hobbies are…

- My family, fitness workout, cooking, and reading. I like to keep up with current events and I am always very curious about what drives people in my immediate environment and also what drives the larger society I live in.