Roland Vollmar

Curriculum Vitae:

• Born 1939 at Braubach
• Studies of Mathematics at Heidelberg and Saarbruecken
• 1964 Diploma
• 1965-1969 and again 1972-1974 Assistant at Institutes of Informatics at the Technische Universitaet Hannover and at the Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg
• 1968 Dr.-Ing.
• 1970-1971 Project leader at Buderus'sche Eisenwerke Wetzlar
• 1974-1989 Professor for Informatics at the Technische Universitaet Braunschweig
• Since 1989 Professor for Informatics at the Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH); in addition 1995-2008 Scientific Head of the „Study Center for Visually Impaired Students"

• Host of 12 foreign scientists; four of them granted by the Humboldt Foundation
• 1992-2001 Speaker of the Graduiertenkolleg „Controllability of Complex Systems"
• 1986- Member of Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft
• 1990 Visiting grant of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science
• 1992 Award of the (Hungarian) John von Neumann Society
• 2010 Honorary doctorate (Dr.-Ing. E.h.) from the Technische Universität Braunschweig

Memberships:

• 1972- Member of the German Informatics Society (GI)
• 1991- Member of Konrad-Zuse-Gesellschaft
• 1998- Member of Society of Scientists and Physicians (GdNAe) Honorary positions:
• 1981-1987 Chairman of the German Deans' Conference of Informatics
• 1983-1985 Chairman of the Faculty for Mathematics, Informatics and
Economics of the Techn. University Braunschweig
• 1990-1991 Vicepresident of the German Informatics Society (GI)
• 1992-1993 President of the German Informatics Society (GI)
• 1992-1999 Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of „Kuratorium OFFIS", Oldenburg
• 1993-1994 Member of an Advisory Committee for Research in Lower Saxony
• 1993-1994 Vicepresident of Council of European Professional Informatics Societies
• 1993-1994 Chairman of the Faculty of Informatics
• 1995-1997 Founding Chairman of IFIP Working Group 1.5 "Cellular Automata and Machines"
• 1994-2002 Chairman of the GI Working Group "History of Informatics"
• Since 1995 Member of the Supervisory Board of the International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science (IBFI), now Leibniz Center for Informatics
• Corresponding Member of IFIP Working Group 3.2 "University Education"
• 1993- Member of „Kuratorium zur Verleihung der Konrad-Zuse-Medaille fuer Informatik"
• 1998-2008 Chairman of Konrad-Zuse-Gesellschaft
• 1998-2002 and again 2004-2006 member of the Senate of Universitaet Karlsruhe(TH)
• 2001- Honorary Member of OFFIS, Oldenburg
• 2006-2008 Chairman of the Faculty of Informatics
• Since 2008 Fellow of GI
• Member of editorial boards of some scientific journals

Main Research Interests:

• cellular automata
• parallelism