Guido Wirtz

Biography

Guido Wirtz received after his diploma in computer science (1985) a doctoral degree from the University of Bonn (1990) and a habilitation degree from the University of Siegen (1995). He worked 6 years as an associate professor at the University of Münster. Since 2002, Guido is a full professor for Practical CS and founder of the Distributed Systems Group at the University of Bamberg, Germany. From 2007 through 2009 he acted as dean of the Faculty of Information Systems and Applied Computer Sciences. Guido is a member of the Chief Information Office of his university and also a member of the CIO board of Bavarian Universities; from 2011 to 2016 he acted as the chairman of the board of Bavarian University CIOs. From 10/2011 through 09/2012 he was the Vice President Research and since 10/2012 he is the Vice President Technology/Innovation of the University of Bamberg.

Research Interest

His research interests are centered on issues regarding the software development for complex, esp. distributed, systems on all levels. This includes design methods, visual languages and tools for distributed systems development as well as middleware, SOA and cloud computing. His current interests are on the seamless transition from business processes to their implementation in a SOA and cloud context as well as in the correctness, conformance, compatibility and portability issues of process languages like BPMN, BPEL or Windows WF