Prof. Dr. Marco Platzner

Marco Platzner is Professor for Computer Engineering at the University of Paderborn.

Previously, he held research positions at the Computer Engineering and Networks Lab at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, the Computer Systems Lab at Stanford University, USA, the GMD - Research Center for Information Technology (now Fraunhofer IAIS) in Sankt Augustin, Germany, and the Graz University of Technology, Austria. Marco Platzner holds diploma and PhD degrees in Telematics (Graz University of Technology, 1991 and 1996), and a "Habilitation" degree for the area hardware-software codesign (ETH Zurich, 2002).

His research interests include reconfigurable computing, hardware-software codesign, and parallel architectures. He is a senior member of the IEEE, a member of the ACM, serves on the program committees of several international conferences (eg. FPL, FPT, RAW, ERSA, DATE), acts regularly as reviewer for scientific journals (eg. IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on VLSI, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems), and is an associate editor of the International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing, the EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems, and the Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He also serves as a reviewer for several research funding agencies (European Commission, Dutch Technology Foundation, French Agency for Research Funding, Belgian Research Funding and Innovation Stimulation Agency, Swiss National Science Foundation, German Research Foundation, and the German Ministry for Economics and Technology). 

Marco Platzner is member of the board of the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing. He served on the board of the Advanced System Engineering Center of the University of Paderborn and was Head of the Computer Science Department, and Deputy Dean of the Faculty for Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics at the University of Paderborn. He is faculty member of the International Graduate School Dynamic Intelligent Systems of the University of Paderborn, and of the Advanced Learning and Research Institute (ALaRI) at Universita' della Svizzera Italiana (USI), in Lugano.