Michael Mrissa is a researcher at the InnoRenew CoE-Slovenia, where his research focuses on service-oriented solutions and semantic reasoning to deal with interoperability and privacy issues in the Web of Things. He received his Ph.D. in 2007 from University Claude Bernard Lyon 1-France, and has published over 60 peer-reviewed papers in international conferences and journals. He also holds a full professor position in computer science at the University of Primorska, in the Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technology-Slovenia.