Ernst-Rüdiger Olderog Member of the Academia Europaea

Prof Dr Ernst-Rüdiger Olderog, Professor of Theoretical Computing Science, has been accepted into the prestigious Academia Europaea. It is made up of scientists from almost all disciplines from all over Europe. Almost 40 of the 2,300 members are Nobel Prize winners.

Olderog studied Computing Science, Mathematics and Logic at the University of Kiel. Various research stays took the computing scientist to Amsterdam (Netherlands), Edinburgh (Scotland) and Yorktown Heights (USA). In 1989, he habilitated at the University of Kiel and has since taught Computing Science at the University of Oldenburg. Olderog is head of the "Development of Correct Systems" department at the Department of Computing Science and spokesman for the DFG-funded research training group "System Correctness under Adverse Circumstances". He received the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG) for his research work in 1994. Olderog is editor of the journal Acta Informatica and was Chair of the IFIP "Working Group 2.2 on Formal Description of Programming Concepts".
Membership of this scientific non-governmental organisation based in London and Wroclaw is based on the recommendation of a committee of experts.