Long Bio Olaf Landsiedel

Bio

• since 2025: Head of the Institute of Networked Cyber Physical Systems and Full Professor (W3), Technical University of Hamburg (TUHH), Hamburg, Germany
  • since 2025: adjunct at Kiel University, Germany
• 2018–2025: Full Professor (W3) in the Distributed Systems Group, Department of Computer Science, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
  • 2018 to 2023: adjunct researcher at Chalmers University of Technology
• 2016–2018: Associate Professor (tenured, Docent) in the Networks and Systems Division, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden 
  • Associated with the Distributed Computing and Systems Group
  • 2016: Docent Degree in Computer Science from Chalmers University of Technology (similar to "Habilitation" in Germany).
• 2012–2016: Assistant Professor (Forskarassistent) in the Networks and Systems Division, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden 
  • Associated with the Distributed Computing and Systems Group
  • March 2015: Visiting Professor in Kay Römer’s group at TU Graz, Austria
• 2010–2012, PostDoc with Mikael Johansson in the Automatic Control Lab, School of Electrical Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. 
  • Co-hosted by the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) in the Networked Embedded Systems (NES) group of Thiemo Voigt.
  • Associated with the interdisciplinary Linnaeus Center “Autonomic Complex Communication Networks, Signals and Systems (ACCESS)”
  • February 2011: Guest Researcher in the SING group of Phil Levis in Stanford
  • In part, supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation
• 2004–2010, PhD Student at the “Communication and Distributed Systems Group” of Klaus Wehrle at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and University of Tübingen, Germany 
  • Thesis: “Mechanisms, Models, and Tools for Flexible Protocol Development and Accurate Network Experimentation”; Anthony D. Joseph from UC Berkeley was my external opponent.
  • Associated with the DFG Research Cluster “Ultra High-Speed Mobile Information and Communication Systems (UMIC)”
  • Associated with the DFG Graduate School “Software for Mobile Communication Systems”
• 2002–2004, Graduate Student in Computer Science at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas 
  • Thesis: “MPEG-4 for Interactive Low-Delay Real-Time Communication”, Prof. G. Minden, graduated with honors
  • Scholarships from Fulbright, the University of Kansas, and the University of Kiel
  • Associated with the Information and Telecommunication Technology Center (ITTC)
• 1999–2002, Undergraduate Student in Computer Science and Business (Minor) at the University of Kiel, Germany

Other notable items

• Fulbright and Direct Exchange Scholarships for study abroad (2002-2004)
• Reached the national finals of the German “Olympics” in Mathematics as High School Student (1997)
• Reached the national finals in Badminton with my team and we ranked first in the federal state (as team captain, 1995)
• Youth coach for Badminton (1995-97)
• Badminton team manager (“Sportwart”) (2000-2002)