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Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. h.c. Herwig Unger (∗1966) received his PhD with a work on Petri Net transformation in 1994 from the Ilmenau University of Technology and his doctorate (habilitation) with a work on a fully decentralized web operating systems from the University of Rostock in 2000. Since 2006, he is a full professor at the FernUniversität in Hagen and the head of the Department of Communication Networks. In 2019, he obtained a honorary PhD in Information Technology from the King Mongkut’s University of Technology in North Bangkok (Thailand). His research interests are in decentralized systems and self-organization, natural language processing, Big Data as well as large- scale simulations.

He has authored more than 150 publications in refereed journals and conferences, published or edited more than 30 books and gave over 35 invited talks and lectures in 12 countries. Besides various industrial co-operations, e.g. with Airbus Industries, he has been a guest researcher/professor at the ICSI Berkeley (USA), the University of Leipzig and other universities in Canada, Mexico and Thailand.

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