Prof. Dr. Jürgen Nehmer

Name and Address

      Prof. Dr. Jürgen Nehmer
      TU Kaiserslautern
      FB Informatik - 36/430
      Postfach 3049
      D-67653 Kaiserslautern
      GERMANY

      phone: +49 631 205 4020
      fax: +49 631 205 3289
      email: nehmer@informatik.uni-kl.de

Current Positions

• Senior professor of Informatics at the University of Kaiserslautern
• Scientific senior advisor of the Fraunhofer Institute IESE
• Technology ambassador of the City of Kaiserslautern

Education

• Study of electrical engineering at the University of Karlsruhe (Diploma 1966)
• Ph.D. in informatics from the University of Karlsruhe (1973)

Professional Activities

• Systems engineer at SIEMENS (1966 - 1967). Development of electronic circuits for process control peripherals
• Software developer at the computing center of the Nuclear Research Center Karlsruhe (1967 - 1970). Development of software for nuclear laboratory automation.
• Guest researcher at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center at Yorktown Heights, USA (Nov. 1970 - Oct. 1971). Research in multiprocessor operating systems.
• Scientist at the institute IDT (real time information processing) at the Nuclear Research Center Karlsruhe (1971 - 1979). Research in real time operating systems.
• Full professor of informatics at the University of Kaiserslautern from 1979 - 2007.

Special Appointments

• Chair of the informatics department at the University of Kaiserslautern (1981 - 1983)
• Distinguished reviewer of the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the subject informatics (1993 - 1996)
• Senator of the DFG (1996 - 2001)
• Member of the German Scientific Advisory Board (Wissenschaftsrat, 1996 - 1998)
• Vice president of the DFG (since 2001)
• Member of the editorial board of the computer magazines Informatik Spektrum (1980 - 2005) and Real Time Systems (1989 - 1997)
• Founder and chair of the collaborative research project "Development of Large Systems with Generic Methods" (SFB 501) funded by the DFG from 1995 to 2003
• Member of the Joint Academy Initiative on Aging in Germany (www.altern-in-deutschland.de) since 2006

Current Research Interests

• software engineering, ambient systems, ambient assisted living

Publications

• about 75 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings
• 3 text books
• selected publications for download:
  • ICSE 2006 Invited Paper
  • it Heft 1/2008

Honors

• Distinguished Service Cross (Landesverdienstorden) of the State Rheinland-Pfalz for outstanding achievements in research, teaching and science management