Claus Pahl is a senior lecturer and the leader of the Web and Software Engineering research group
at Dublin City University, which focuses on Web technologies and e-learning applications in particular.
Pahl has published more than 125 papers including a wide range of journal articles, book chapters, and
conference contributions on e-learning. He is on the editorial board of the International Journal on ELearning and the International Journal of Technology-Enhanced Learning and is a regular reviewer for
journals and conferences in the area of software, Web, and learning technologies and their applications.
He has extensive experience in educational technologies, both as an instructor using technology-supported teaching and learning at undergraduate and postgraduate level and as a researcher in Web-based
learning technology. The IDLE environment, developed by him and his students, has been in use in
undergraduate teaching since 1999.