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Christoph Kirsch received the Dr.Ing. degree from Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany, in 1999 while at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science in Saarbruecken. He then worked as Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences of the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2004, he is full professor and holds a chair at the Department of Computer Sciences of the University of Salzburg, Austria. His research interests are in concurrent programming and systems, virtual execution environments, and embedded real-time software. Dr. Kirsch co-invented the Giotto and HTL languages, and leads the JAviator unmanned-aerial-vehicle project for which he received an IBM faculty award in 2007. He co-founded the International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), has been general co-chair of ESWEEK 2008, and is general chair of LCTES 2009. He has been invited to serve on program committees of CASE, Coordination, DATE, EMSOFT, EUC, EuroSys, LCTES, OOPSLA, RTAS, RTSS, and VEE. |