Curriculum: Paul Heisterkamp (b. 1957) received an MA in German philology, philosophy and general linguistics at Münster University, Germany, in 1986. Starting out in 1987 with the then AEG research at Ulm, Germany, that later became DaimlerChrysler corporate research, he worked on numerous national and international research projects on spoken dialogue systems, such as, e.g. Esprit-I P26, SUNDIAL, DISC, or DARPA Communicator, acquiring expertise in all aspects of these systems. The current focus of his work is shifting from dialogue management and contextual interpretation to dialogue system integration in mobile environments with special respect to the aspects of multimodality in vehicle human-machine interfaces. He authored and co-authored more than 20 papers presented at international conferences, has been an invited lecturer at several universities in Europe and the US, and is currently a member of the board of ELRA.