Prof. Friedemann Mattern 

Friedemann Mattern was born on July 28, 1955 in Freiburg, Germany. He studied computer science at the University of Bonn and became a Faculty Research Assistant at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Kaiserslautern in 1983. There he worked at the "Collaborative Research Center for VLSI Design and Parallelism". He obtained his Ph.D. in 1989 with a thesis on distributed algorithms. From 1991-1994 he was Professor of practical computer science at Saarland University, Saarbrucken, and from 1994-1999 Professor of practical computer science and distributed systems at Darmstadt University of Technology. There he was chair of the graduate program "Enabling Technologies for Electronic Commerce". Friedemann Mattern has been full Professor of Computer Science at the ETH Zurich since July 1999.