Nils Aschenbruck

Nils Aschenbruck is a Full Professor for Computer Science at Osnabrueck University, Germany. His research focus is on dependable and robust networked systems including scenario modeling, traffic engineering, and network security. Dr. Aschenbruck has received over 35 external grants from both government funding agencies and industry. In total, his projects have received over 6 million euros in external funding. He has published over 100 refereed papers in international journals and conference proceedings.

Dr. Aschenbruck served as reviewer nationally as well as internationally including Humboldt, DFG, BMBF, and NATO. From 2013 to 2017 he was the chair of the IEEE CS Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC), from 2016 to 2017 the chair of the IEEE CS Technical Activities Committee (TAC), and from 2020 to 2022 as well as 2023 to 2025 an elected member of the IEEE CS Board of Governors. In 2024, he served as member of the IEEE CS Publications Board Executive Committee. Since 2024, he is a member of IEEE CS Executive Committee, serving as elected 2nd Vice President and Vice President in 2024 and 2025, respectively. He is the chair of the Steering Committee of IEEE-TMC and a Steering Committee member of IEEE-LCN and IEEE-IPCCC.

Dr. Aschenbruck received his graduate diploma and PhD in computer science from Bonn University, Germany, in 2003 and 2008, respectively. He continued as a senior researcher and head of the research area “tactical wireless multi-hop networks” at the communication systems group of Bonn University, Germany. In spring 2010, he worked at the Colorado School of Mines, USA for a term, co-funded by DAAD. Since 2012 he holds a full professorship for distributed systems at Osnabrueck University endowed by the HARTING technology group. Since 2017 he serves as Computer Science department head and member of the dean’s council.

Candidate website: http://na.uni-osnabrueck.net