ISUW 2022 Speaker

Sebastian Lehnhoff is a Full Professor for Energy Information Systems at the University of Oldenburg. He studied computer science at the Technical University of Dortmund and received his doctorate in spring 2010 from the Chair of Operating Systems and Computer Architecture. His dissertation was published as a textbook entitled "Decentralized Networked Energy Management" by Vieweg-Teubner-Verlag. From 2010-2015 he was junior professor for energy informatics at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg, an endowed chair of the OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology. Since the end of 2015, he has been Professor of Energy Informatics in Oldenburg and is a member of the OFFIS Divisional Board for Energy. Here he deals with research topics in the field of intelligent energy systems, so-called Smart Grids. The focus is on real-time capable methods for safety-critical applications in electrical energy systems, network-oriented decentralized operation management as well as the co-simulation of complex energy systems. Sebastian Lehnhof has been a member of the OFFIS Executive Board since 2016. Prof. Lehnhoff is active in numerous committees, working groups and expert groups on the topic of energy information systems, among others in the executive committee of the GI expert group energy informatics, in the board of directors of the Energy Research Centre Lower Saxony (EFZN), in the international Smart Grid Action Network (ISGAN) of the IEA and as speaker of the Future Laboratory Energy in the ZDIN. He is the technical director of open KONSEQUENZe.G. - an industrial consortium dealing with the development of modular and open source software for network control systems.