Peter Marwedel

Prof. Dr. Peter Marwedel studied physics at the University of Kiel, Germany, where he also received his PhD in physics. As a Post-Doc, he was one of the pioneers in high-level synthesis based on the hardware description language MIMOLA. He received the formal qualification for professors in computer science in 1987. In 1989 he became a full professor at the faculty of informatics, TU Dortmund, Germany. He also was a visiting professor at UC Irvine (USA) in 1995. Since 1997 he is CEO of Informatik Centrum Dortmund, which is a spin-off of TU Dortmund. He was involved in the founding of the German accreditation agency ASIIN. Dr. Marwedel was a cluster leader of the European network of excellence on embedded and real-time systems, ArtistDesign and is the chair of the follow-up organization EMSIG. Dr. Marwedel is the author or co-author of over 120 books and papers and is the author of a standard text book on embedded systems. He is an IEEE fellow.  His research interests include embedded software, low-power software, compilers for embedded processors, timing predictability, high-level synthesis, handling of faults in software and test program generation for processors. Dr. Marwedel won the teaching award of TU Dortmund in 2003 and is Dean of Studies at the Department of Informatics at TU Dortmund and chairs the education committee of the academic senate at TU Dortmund.