Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Christoph Meinel (1954) is President and CEO of the Hasso-Plattner-Institut for IT-Systems Engineering (HPI) and full professor (C4) for computer science at the University of Potsdam.

His research field is Internet and Web Technologies and Systems (www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/meinel). Beside he is a teacher at the HPI School of Design Thinking, a visiting professor at the Computer Science School of the Technical University of Beijing (China) and a research fellow of the interdisciplinary center SnT at the University of Luxembourg. Since 2008 he is program director of the HPI–Stanford Design Thinking Research Program. Since 2010 he chairs the Steering Committee of the HPI Future SOC lab.

Christoph Meinel is author or co-author of 12 text books and monographs and of various conference proceedings. He has published more than 380 peer-reviewed scientific papers in highly recognised international scientific journals and conferences. His high-security solution Lock-Keeper is internationally patented and licensed by Siemens AG. His tele-TASK system provides an innovative mobile system for recording and Internet broadcasting lectures and presentations used in many universities all-over the world. The virtual tele-lab for Internet Security provides the possibility to get hands-on experiences in practical issues of internet and information security. The recently developed Tele-Board supports remote work of creative teams.

Christoph Meinel is chairman of the German IPv6 council, and chairs the advisory board of UTD Meraka in South Africa. In 2006, he hosted together with Hasso Plattner the first German “National IT-Summit” of the German Federal Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel. From 1998 to 2002 he was the founder and CEO of the Research Lab “Institute for Telematics” in Trier. Christoph Meinel is chief editor of the scientific electronic journals “ECCC – Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity" and  “ECDTR – Electronic Colloquium on Design Thinking Research”, the “IT-Gipfelblog”, and the “tele-TASK”-archive. More ...

• tele-TASK - huge archive of (more than 4.000) tele-lectures
• iTuneU @ HPI - our lecture podcasts archive by iTunesU
• ECCC - the Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity
• ECDTR - the Electronic Colloquium on Design Thinking Research
• Internetworking-Buch - our Blog about Internetworking Technolgoy
• IT-Gipfelblog - a national discussion platform on IT in Germany

• President and CEO of the Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Softwaresystemtechnik GmbH at the University of Potsdam (since 2004)
• Archiv:
  • Founding Director of the Institut für Telematik e.V. in Trier (1998 - 2002)
  • Vice-Director of the ITWM - Fraunhofer-Institut für Techno- und Wirtschaftsmathematik (1996 -1997)

Program Director

• Program co-director of the HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Program (since 2008)

• Chairman of the Steering Committee of the HPI Future SOC Lab (since 2010)
• Chairman of the Special Interest Group "IPv6" of AG 2 "Digitale Infrastrukturen" of the national German IT-summit (since 2011)
• Chairman of the German IPv6 Council (since 2007)
• Chairman of the Advisory Board of SAP Research, South Africa (since 2008)
• Archiv: Chairman of
• Fachgruppe Komplexität of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (1992 - 2007)
• WEP - Zentrum für Wissenschaftliches Elektronisches Publizieren at the University of Trier (1996 - 2004)
• Inititative der Service- und Softwareanbieter Rheinland-Pfalz (1999 - 2001)

recently e.g.

• Trust Management Symposium - 22./23. March 2012, HPI Potsdam
• German IPv6-Summit 2011 - 1./2. December 2011, HPI Potsdam
• Cloud-based High Performance Computing - Sino-German Workshop, 26. September - 1. October 2011, Shanghai, China
• SOA-Security Symposium, 28./29. Oktober 2010, HPI, Potsdam
• 5. tele-TASK Symposium - 15.-19. September 2010, TU Beijing, China
• German IPv6-Summit 2010 - 24./25. June 2010, HPI Potsdam
• 4. tele-TASK Symposium - 25./26. Februar 2010, HPI Potsdam
• Potsdamer Wissenschaftsforum - 19. November 2009, HPI Potsdam
• Informatik-Impulse - 18. November 2009, HPI Potsdam
• German IPv6-Summit 2009 - 14./15. Mai 2009, HPI Potsdam
• German IPv6-Summit 2008 - 7./8. Mai 2008, HPI Potsdam

• AG2 "Digitale Infrastrukturen" of the national German IT-Summit (since 2010)
• Security Advisory Board of SAP AG (since 2011)
• Advisory Board of Zouple Cloud, Shanghai (since 2011)
• Member of jury of "Deutschland - Land der Ideen" (since 2011)
• Advisory Board of ems - electronic media school (since 2010)
• Advisory Board of Junior-Zoo Universität Berlin (since 2010)
• Advisory Board of MINT e.V., an association of math and sciences excellence centers among German's schools (since 2006)
• Board of ProWissen Potsdam e.V. (since 2007)
• Archiv:
  • AG5 "High-Tech Strategy for Information Society" of the national German IT-Summits of German chancelor Dr. Angelika Merkel (2006 - 2009)
  • Scientific Board of LIASIT at the university of Luxembourg from (1999 - 2009)
  • Scientific Board of Directors of the IBFI Schloss Dagstuhl (1992 - 2005)
  • DFG-Graduiertenkolleg "Mathematische Optimierung" (1995 - 2001)
  • Working Group "Gesundheit" of the Forum Info 2000 of the German Ministry of Sciences BMBF (1997 - 1998)
  • Technologiebeirat Rheinland-Pfalz (1996 -1999)

Membership in various Program Committees of International Conferences

• Visiting Professor at the School of Computer Engineering and Science of Shanghai University (since 2011)
• Research Fellow of SnT - Interdisciplinary Center of Security and Trust - at the University of Luxembourg (since 2010)
• Visiting Professor of the CS College of the Beijing University of Technology, China (since 2002)
• Archive:
  • Visiting Professor at the LIASIT - Luxembourg International Advanced Studies in Information Technology (1999 - 2009)

• Confidant lecturerer of the Gesellschaft für Informatik at the Hasso-Plattner-Institut, University of Potsdam (since 2004)
• Confidant lecturerer of the Gesellschaft für Informatik at the University of Trier (1997 - 2004)