Reinhard Schäler

Reinhard Schäler has been involved in the localisation industry in a variety of roles since 1987. He is the founder and editor of Localisation Focus - The International Journal of Localisation, a founding editor of the Journal of Specialised Translation (JosTrans), a former member of the editorial board of Multilingual Computing (Oct 97 to Jan 07, covering 70 issues), a founder and CEO of The Institute of Localisation Professionals (TILP), and a member of OASIS. He has attracted more than €5.5m euro in research funding and has published more than 50 articles, book chapters and conference papers on language technologies and localisation. He has been an invited speaker at EU and international government-organised conferences in Africa, the Middle East, South America and Asia. He is a Principal Investigator in the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL), a lecturer at the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems (CSIS), University of Limerick, and the founder and director of the Localisation Research Centre (LRC) at UL, established in 1995.