Christoph Meinel
From IRF 2008
Prof. Christoph Meinel
Dr. sc. nat. Christoph Meinel (1954) is the CEO and President of the Hasso-Plattner-Institut for IT-Systems Engineering (HPI) and full professor (C4) for computer science at the University of Potsdam.
Christoph Meinel studied mathematics and computer sciences at the Humboldt-University Berlin from 1974-79. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1981. From 1981-1991 he worked for the Department of Mathematics at Humboldt University and at the Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin as a scientific researcher. In 1988 he received his State Doctorate (“Habilitation”) with a thesis on complexity theory that was published as Springer Lecture Notes (Vol. 370). After research stays at universities of Saarbrücken and Paderborn 1992 he was appointed a full professor (C4) for computer science at the University of Trier. Since 2004 he is president and CEO of the HPI in Potsdam and full professor (C4) for Internet- and WWW-Technologies. Beside his professorship in Potsdam he is a professor both at the School of Computer Science of the Technical University of Beijing (China) and at the Luxembourg Institute of Advanced Studies in Information Technology at the University of Luxembourg.
Christoph Meinel is author or co-author of 7 text books and monographs and of various con-ference proceedings. He has published more than 300 scientific papers in highly recognised international scientific journals and conferences. His high-security solution Lock-Keeper is international patented and licensed by Siemens AG. Most of his publications and recordings of his lectures can be freely accessed on the Internet (www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/meinel or www.tele-task.de). His main research interests and activities focus on applied research and engineering in internet technology and systems, particularly in the fields trust and security engineering, web-university and secure telemedicine as well as in computational complexity and in formal (BDD-based) methods for IT-system design and verificatication.
Beside his work as a university professor, from 1998 to 2002 Christoph Meinel was CEO and director of the Research Lab “Institute for Telematics” in Trier where most of the budget came from applied research projects with industrial partners. The expertise of the institute laid mainly in the fields: Internet Security, Electronic Publishing / E-Learning and Telemedi-cine. Inbetween 1996-2007 Christoph Meinel also was member of the scientific board of the IBFI Schloß Dagstuhl and speaker of the special interest group on complexity of the German society “Gesellschaft für Informatik” (GI). Since 2007 he is chairman of the German IPv6 Council.
Christoph Meinel is Chief Editor of the scientific electronic journal “ECCC – Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity” and of the “IT-Gipfelblog”. As a member of various in-ternational scientific boards and program committees he has organised many international symposia and conferences. In 2006, as the president of HPI he hosted the first German “National IT-Summit” of the German Federal Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel.
