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Christoph Meinel
German University of Digital Science
Germany
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Short Bio
Christoph Meinel (Univ.-Prof., Dr.rer.nat., Dr.sc.nat., 1954) is the founder and president of the German University of Digital Science, the first digital university of Germany. From 2004 to 2023 he was CEO and Scientific Director of the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering (HPI) at the University of Potsdam. There he was Professor of Computer Science and held the chair for "Internet Technologies and Systems".
Since 2012, Meinel has been a member of acatech, the German Academy of Science and Engineering. He is chairman or member of numerous scientific committees, advisory boards and supervis
ory boards, and a visiting professor at several universities in China (TU Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai). In 2019, he will be inducted into the New Internet IPv6 Hall of Fame.
With his team, he designed and built the first European MOOC learning platform openHPI.de, which has been used by partners such as the WHO (openWHO.org), SAP (openSAP.com), and the Stifterverband (KI-Campus.org). MOOCs are interactive online courses for thousands of learners who can network and exchange ideas while learning. Across all platforms, there are more than 16 million enrollments
Meinel studied mathematics and computer science at the Humboldt University of Berlin from 1974 to 1979, where he received his Dr. rer. nat. degree in 1981. In 1988 he habilitated at the Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin. In 1992 he was appointed full professor (C4) of Computer Science at the University of Trier. From 1998 to 2002, in addition to his professorship, he was Director and Managing Director of the Institut für Telematik e.V. From 1996 to 2007, Christoph Meinel was a member of the Scientific Board of IBFI Schloss Dagstuhl. From 1992 to 2007, he was the spokesman for the "Complexity" division of the German Informatics Society (GI). He has received numerous invitations to speak in Germany and abroad, is involved in a number of international program committees, has organized various international symposia and conferences, and was and is a member of a number of supervisory boards, e.g. the Security Advisory Board of SAP.
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