Kirsten Winter studied Computer Science at the University ofErlangen/Nuernberg and the University of Freiburg (at the Instituteof Computer Science and Social Research, IIG). She received thePh.D. degree in computer science from the Technical UniversityBerlin, in 2001. She currently holds a position as a researchfellow at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her researchinterests includes the verification of software and hardwaresystems, mainly model checking, as well as formal modellingnotations.