Review Comitee
Philipp Ahmann
Sr. OSS Community Manager, Etas GmbH (BOSCH)
Philipp Ahmann is a Senior OSS Community Manager at ETAS (a Bosch subsidiary), specializing in safety-critical automotive open source software. With 15+ years' experience in Linux automotive platforms, he has held roles from software engineer to project & line manager. He currently holds the position of the technical steering committee chair for the Linux Foundation ELISA project to Enable Linux in Safety Applications. Additionally, he is a member of the Linux Foundation Europe Advisory Board.
Dr. Michael Armbruster
Solution Architect and Security and Safety Expert, emlix GmbH
Michael Armbruster is Solution architect at emlix GmbH for safe and secure systems based on embedded Linux. He has worked in various roles and domains such as avionics, automotive and industrial automation for more than 20 years. Much of his experience is in engineering functionally safe systems (of systems) in context of video-based advanced driver-assistance, autonomous driving and autonomous automation and control. Before his time at emlix GmbH, he worked at Elektrobit Automotive GmbH on technical solutions that allow the utilization of Linux for safety-related applications leading to EB corbos Linux for Safety Applications as announced early 2024.
Exemplary projects he worked on, realized e.g. fault-tolerant and dynamically reconfigurable SW-integration platforms for SW-defined vehicle functionality, or an optimized transportation system that pairs autonomous shuttles and roadside infrastructure as integrated cognitive system with cloud-based value-added services.
Dipl.-Ing. Matthias Lehmann
Senior Academic Councillor at the Institute of Aeronautical Systems, University of Stuttgart
Prior to his career at the University of Stuttgart, Matthias Lehmann worked as a software development engineer at Diehl Aviation. Here he worked on the development of an Electronic Flight Control System (EFCS) for primary flight control. He was the responsible software developer for the Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) and software team leader for the IMA developed with Airbus A380 according to DO178B Level A.
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Tilo Mentler
Human Computer Interaction und User Experience, Department of Computer Science, Trier University of Applied Sciences
Tilo Mentler has been Professor of Human Computer Interaction and User Experience at Trier University of Applied Sciences since 2020. Previously, he was a junior professor for safety-critical human-computer systems at the University of Lübeck from 2016 to 2020. Among other things, he coordinated the NetzDatenStrom research project on the standard-compliant integration of big data solutions and open source approaches into existing network control systems. He researches and teaches the human-centred development of computer-based interactive systems and heads the HCI laboratory. His research work, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Carl Zeiss Foundation, focuses on the goals, needs and abilities of users of modern technology. He is the spokesperson for IFIP Working Group 13.5 - Human Error, Resilience, Reliability, Safety and System Development and a member of the steering committee and former spokesperson for the Usable Safety & Security (UseSafeSec) specialist group of the German Informatics Society.
Dr. Matthias Meyer
Division Manager Software Engineering & IT Security, Fraunhofer IEM
Dr. Matthias Meyer is Division Manager of the "Software Engineering and IT Security" division and head of its department "Safe & Secure IoT Systems" at Fraunhofer IEM. Together with his team and in close cooperation with companies and research institutions, he researches processes, methods and tools that support organisations in the efficient development of safe and secure software-defined systems following the paradigm of "(Safety &) Security by Design". Dr. Meyer is a member of the Bitkom Management Club and of the VDMA working group “Industrial Security”.
Since its foundation in 2011, Dr. Meyer has contributed to the development of Fraunhofer IEM. Previously, he was Executive Manager in the Software Quality Lab and Researcher in the Software Engineering Group at Paderborn University.
