Prof. Dr. Olaf Landsiedel

Prof. Dr. Olaf Landsiedel
Head of Institute
Building E, Room 4.089
Phone: +49 40 42878 3530
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Biography

Olaf Landsiedel is Head of the Institute for Networked Cyber Physical Systems (NCPS) at TUHH, Germany (since 2025). His research focuses on Distributed and Networked Systems, and he is particularly passionate about the Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), TinyML, Edge AI, and Edge & Fog Computing. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Kiel University, Germany. 

Before joining TUHH, he was Professor for Computer Science at Kiel University, leading the Distributed Systems Group from 2018 to 2025. From 2018 to 2023, he was additionally an adjunct researcher at Chalmers University of Technology.  2012 to 2018, he was an Assistant and later tenured Associate Professor at Chalmers University of Technology. And from 2010 to 2012 he spent two years as a Postdoctoral fellow at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, and the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS, now RISE), Sweden. He received his PhD from RWTH Aachen, Germany, in 2010. He was a Fulbright Scholar to the US in 2002–2004.

His awards include Best Paper Awards at ACM SenSys 2013, EWSN 2019, IEEE DCOSS 2022, IEEE DCOSS-IoT 2024, the SSF Future Research Leader Award 2017, the “Lecturer of the Year 2014 Award” at Chalmers University and the "Best-Prof-Award" 2019 and 2024 from the Student Union in Computer Science at Kiel University. In addition, his co-authored publications were nominated for best papers at EWSN 2019, DAC 2022, LCN 2022, and EWSN 2022.

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Current Publications

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