Professor Christoph Meinel

Professor Christoph Meinel was CEO and scientific director of Hasso-Plattner Institut für Digital Engineering gGmbH (HPI) at the University of Potsdam from 2004 to 2023. He is professor emeritus of computer science at the joint Digital Engineering Faculty of HPI and the University of Potsdam, where he holds the chair for "Internet Technologies and Systems."

Christoph Meinel has been a member of acatech, the National Academy of Science and Engineering, since 2012, was chairman of the German IPv6 Council and a member of WG 2 of the National IT Summit. He is chairman or member of numerous scientific committees, advisory boards and supervisory boards as well as visiting professor at various universities in China (TU Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai). In 2019, he was inducted into the New Internet IPv6 Hall of Fame.

His research interests in the area of Internet technologies and information security focus on Security Engineering, Sustainable Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Education.

Christoph Meinel is author or co-author of 25 books and monographs and editor of several conference proceedings and anthologies. He has published more than 750 (peer-reviewed) scientific papers in prestigious scientific journals and at international conferences.

He studied mathematics and computer science at the Humboldt University in Berlin, earning his doctoral degree there in 1981. In 1988, he habilitated as Dr.sc.nat. at the Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin. In 1992, he was appointed full professor of computer science at the University of Trier. In the years 1998 to 2002, in addition to his professorship, he was also director and managing director of the Institut für Telematik e.V. From 1996 to 2007, Christoph Meinel was a member of the scientific board of directors of IBFI Schloss Dagstuhl. From 1992 to 2007, he was the spokesman for the "Complexity" specialist group of the German Informatics Society (GI). He has received numerous calls in Germany and abroad, is involved in a number of international program committees, has organized various international symposia and conferences, and was and is a member of a number of supervisory boards, e.g. the Security Advisory Board of SAP.