Geir Horn is senior scientist at SINTEF ICT and the project manager of MUSIC. His research interests are on how to handle dynamic complexity and services choreography for distributed applications through adaptation and incremental construction of applications. He believes that advances in this area will build on results from mathematical combinatorial optimisation, learning algorithms and the interaction of autonomous agents in a feedback system (bio-inspired collective intelligence). Geir previously held a position as research director at SINTEF in Oslo, before spending 4 years in more basic research at another Norwegian research institute SIMULA. He has been working with European research for 15 years and has managed several European collaborative projects: SCI-Europe (EP 25257), Arches (EP 20693), SISCI (EP 23174), PrOMInent (EP 23009), Diaspora (EP 29258), WireNet (G1ST-CT-2002-50338), and MADAM (IST-004159). He has participated in multiple proposal evaluations for the IST programme in FP5, FP6 and FP7; and he is also on the review panel for several running IST projects.