Kia Teymourian is a Research Assistant in the group of Networked Information Systems at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He worked in the European research project TripCom and the German national project Corporate Semantic Web. His current research activities are focused on large-scale semantic-enabled distributed information systems as well as nature inspired self-organization for semantic data management. He is currently working in the joint research project Digipolis on an implementation of a self-organized semantic storage service for massive metadata storage from a semantic-enabled indoor navigation system.