Andrea Giessmann has won one of the highly coveted grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) in the Marie Heim-Vögtlin (MHV) program. Starting February 1, 2014, she changes jobs from the SAP Research Center in St. Gallen to the BISA lab at HEC Lausanne. Andrea is currently working towards her Ph.D degree in information systems, where her main research interests include cloud computing, platform as a service and platform-based business models.