Martina Zitterbart

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Martina Zitterbart (born May 12, 1963 in Karlsruhe ) is a German computer scientist .

Life

Zitterbart is the daughter of Klaus and Brigitte Zitterbart, née Tischer. She attended Neureut grammar school until 1982 . She currently lives in Karlsruhe.

Professional career

After completing her studies, she worked from 1987 to 1995 as a research assistant at the Institute for Telematics at the University of Karlsruhe , where she received her doctorate in 1990. She then worked as a visiting scholar at IBM Research - Zurich and subsequently from 1991 to 1992 at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York .

In 1994 she held visiting professorships at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and the University of Mannheim . From 1995 to 2001 she was a professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig and since then has been a professor of computer science at the Institute for Telematics of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

In 2003 she was General Co-Chair of the ACM SIGCOMM conference, which was held in Karlsruhe.

From 2004 to 2006 she was Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science at KIT. In 2017 she celebrated 25 years of service at KIT.

Scientific activity

In her scientific work, she is primarily concerned with multimedia communication systems, mobile and ubiquitous communication, ambient technologies and wireless sensor networks. She is a member of the IEEE , the ACM and the German Society for Computer Science .

She is also co-founder of the interdisciplinary FairNet Research & Innovation Center (RIC) at KIT. The aim of the RIC is to research simple, manageable, transparent and trustworthy options for Internet consumers from a variety of value-oriented services.

Honors and Achievements

  • 1991: Nationwide best work in the field of communication and distributed systems of the GI specialist group KuVS (communication and distributed systems)
  • 1992: FZI Prize for the best doctoral thesis in computer science
  • 2002: Alcatel SEL Research Award for Technical Communication

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martina Zitterbart. Prabook.
  2. ↑ a b Natalie Blaser; Isabel Häuser 25 years in the service of IT. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, November 3, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Shiverbeard, Martina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe