Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Bernd E. Wolfinger

Prof. Bernd E. Wolfinger has been with the Computer Science Department of Hamburg University as a professor since 1981, where he is presently heading the Telecommunications and Computer Networks (TKRN) Division. Dr. Wolfinger has degrees from Université Claude-Bernard, Lyon/F. (Maîtrise, ‘74), University of Karlsruhe/F.R.G. (Diploma, Mathematics ‘75; Ph.D., Comp. Sc. ’79). He has spent long-term sabbaticals at IBM Research / Yorktown, N.Y. (‘85), Internat. Computer Science Institute / Berkeley, Ca. (’91,’96), as well as at Université P. et M. Curie, LIP 6, Paris (’01, ‘06). Professor Wolfinger is active in Computer Networking research since 1975, he has been responsible for numerous conference organizations and has served on a large variety of TPCs (> 100 during the last decade) and he is currently member of 5 Editorial Boards of international journals. He has been editor of books and special issues of journals; he has published more than 150 papers in areas such as High-speed & Mobile Networks and Real-time Communications (e.g. IPTV) as well as in Modeling (Simulation & Queueing Networks), Measurement, Traffic Engineering and in Performance, Reliability & QoS Evaluation.