Andreas Reuter Appointed Senior Professor at Heidelberg University

The Heidelberg based expert on information technologies, Andreas Reuter, has been appointed senior professor of Heidelberg University. With his appointment in October Andreas Reuter took over the task to extend the IT infrastructure of Heidelberg University in cooperation with other research institutions in the region within the next three years. The focus of this task will be requirement specifications which emerge from the so called data-driven sciences. For this purpose, he will work closely with all involved organisations. Andreas Reuter is managing director of the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) and its sister organisation EML European Media Laboratory GmbH. Until his retirement he held the endowed chair "Distributed Systems" - supported by Klaus Tschira Foundation - at Heidelberg University. Heidelberg University bestows the title of senior professorship to excellent scientists and academic teachers.