Guenter Mueller
From IRF 2007
Guenter Mueller is founder director of the Institute of Computer Science and Social Studies at the University of Freiburg, where he has been head of the Telematics chair since 1990. Previously, he was a director of IBM Europe, responsible for research and development in IBM Europe’s open and distributed systems, prior to which he directed IBM’s European Networking Center in Heidelberg.
After receiving his PhD in Duisburg in 1976, he was engaged in postdoctoral research at IBM Alamaden Research, USA, during which time he developed the parser for SQL. He qualified as Professor of Computer Science (Habilitation) at Vienna University in 1983.
Professor Mueller has served on many committees for industry, science and politics, among them the Multi-Media Commission of the Baden-Wuerttemberg State Parliament and the Advisory Board to a similar task force of the German Parliament. He is a member of the Science and Technology Forum of the Ministry of Science and Technology in Japan.
His line of research has won him numerous invitations; these include NTT Tokio, Hitachi Laboratories, Japan, IBM, the University of Harvard and ICSI Berkeley, where he acted as guest scientist on work on security and/or human interface technology. From 1993-1999, he led a consortium of research institutions, universities and companies working on security issues, sponsored by the Daimler-Benz Foundation and from 1999, was speaker for the DFG Key Program “Security in Information and Communication Technology”. In 1999, he received an honorary professorship at the University of Darmstadt and in 2000 was scientific expert adviser at the Federal Government’s Conference on “Progressive Governance in the 21st Century" upon invitation of former Chancellor Schroeder
Today, Professor Mueller conducts research in Information and Network Security. He is co-editor of three computer science journals and one Information Systems journal (WI). He acts as consultant to several companies inside and outside Germany. Three of his former students and five of his former IBM employees are now full professors in computer science.
