Barbara is Associate Professor at the Z_GIS in Salzburg, the interdisciplinary Centre of Competence for Geoinformatics of the University of Salzburg, Austria. She is Associated Faculty at Doctoral College GIScience, on the Editorial Board of the AGIT - Journal für Angewandte Geoinformatik. Her research interests include Interoperability and spatial data infrastructures, Online Geoprocessing and Digital Earth.