Christoph Rasche is a research scientist at the technical university of Bucharest (Universitatea Politehnica Bucuresti) since 2010. Before, he lived and worked in Germany, USA and Switzerland; he speaks German and Romanian; and some of its dialects. He has written 1 book, 2 book chapters, 17 journal publications and many conference papers. He has organized meetings for expatriats in various countries. This is his first book outside his usual domain of scientific publishing.