Advisory Board

Jörg Eberspächer is senior member IEEE and member ACM and VDE, and member of the "Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher LEOPOLDINA". From 1997- 1999 he was member of the board and from 2000-2002 chairman of the German Information Technology Society (VDE/ITG). From 2000-2002 he was member of the board of VDE. He has been chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Fraunhofer Institut für Nachrichtentechnik (Heinrich-Hertz-Institut) HHI, Berlin, member of the scientific advisory board of the Fraunhofer Institut for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS), Berlin, member of the scientific advisory board of the Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien (ftw.), Vienna, Austria, member of the scientific advisory board of the Wissenschaftliches Institut für Kommunikationsdienste (WIK), Bad Honnef, member of the scientific advisory board of the Lakeside Labs, Klagenfurt, Austria, and member of the board of the MÜNCHNER KREIS.

Hermann Kopetz received his PhD in physics "sub auspiciis praesidentis" from the University of Vienna, Austria in 1968. After eight years in Industry he accepted in 1978  an appointment as a Professor for Computer Process Control at the Technical University of West-Berlin, moving to the Technical University of Vienna in 1992. From 1990 to 1992 Kopetz was chairman of the IEEE Technical Committee on Fault-Tolerant Computing and from 1996 to 1998 Chairman of the  IFIP WG 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault-Tolerance. Kopetz is a full member of the Austrian Academy of Science and is currently a member of the Information Society Advisory Group (ISTAG), advising the European Commission in Brussels in the domain of Information Technology.  Kopetz is the chief architect of the Time-Triggered Architecture for dependable Embedded Systems. He has published a widely used textbook on Real-Time Systems, more than 150 papers and more than twenty patents on the topic of dependable embedded systems. Kopetz is a Fellow of the IEEE and received the IEEE Computer Society 2003 Technical Achievement Award with the citation: For outstanding contributions to the field of safety-critical real-time computing. In June 2007 he received the honorary degree of Dr. honoris causa from the University Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France.

Andreas Kugi received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Graz University of Technology (Austria), and his PhD from the Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU, Austria), both with summa cum laude, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. From 1995 to 2000 he worked as a senior researcher at JKU and received the Habilitation in "Control Theory and Control Systems Technology" in 2000. From 2000 until 2002 he was working as an associate professor for Automatic Control at JKU, before he was appointed full professor at the Saarland University, Germany, where he held the Chair of System Theory and Automatic Control until May 2007. In June 2007 Andreas Kugi accepted a new position at Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) as a full professor for Complex Dynamical Systems and as the head of the Automation and Control Institute (ACIN). His main research interests include the physics-based modelling, analysis, optimisation and control of nonlinear complex dynamical systems with a strong focus on various industrial applications.

Karsten Theess received his Diplom-Wirtschaftsingenieur degree, specializing in Operations Research and Electrical Engineering, from Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg in 1991 during his 10-year tenure as Officer in the German Army and attended the international part-time MBA Program at Rotterdam School of Management / Erasmus University.  In 1997 he joined Lam Research Corporation, one of the world's largest suppliers of wafer fabrication equipment, and progressed through operations management roles of increasing responsibility at Lam?s offices in Germany, The Netherlands, at Lam's headquarters in Fremont, CA (USA) and since September 2010 at Lam Research AG in Villach, Austria (formerly SEZ AG).  As the Vice President of Clean Group Product Operations he is responsible for the operating performance of Lam's Clean business in Austria and the US, and also serves as the chairman of Lam Research AG's management board.  At its 550 employee Villach site, Lam Research maintains research and technology development as well as manufacturing operations.

Erwin Toplak studied Electrotechnology at the Technical University of Graz (1979-1984) and worked as Product Engineer for Digital Signal Processors at AMS in Graz. At the company Röderstein in Landshut/Germany he worked as Application Engineer for Hybrid Circuitry and in the years 1987-1991 as Application and Sales Engineer for Complex Measuring Systems at Tektronix in Vienna/Austria. In the year 1991 he changed to Kapsch AG in Vienna, working as Marketing & Sales Manager in the field of Ind. Electronics. Erwin Toplak was Senior Manager of Traffic Control Systems (1994-1999) and became Director of Traffic Control Systems at Kapsch AG in Vienna in 1999. Since 2002 he's Member of the Board at Kapsch TrafficCom AG in Vienna.