Work address: Gusshausstrasse 27-29/376, 1040 Wien

Phone: +43 1 58801 27683

Email: zoitl@acin.tuwien.ac.at

Homepage: users.acin.tuwien.ac.at/...

Nationality: Austrian

Languages: English, German

Research Group: Agile Control Group

Keywords: Industrial automation, real-time systems, embedded systems, multi-agent systems, ontologies, dynamic reconfiguration, event driven real-time execution, IEC 61499

Alois Zoitl holds a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering with the focus on dynamic reconfiguration of real-time constrained control applications and a Master degree in Electrical Engineering with the focus on distributed industrial automation systems from Vienna University of Technology. Currently he is the head of the Agile Control Group at the Automation and Control Institute (ACIN) at the Vienna University of Technology. There he is responsible for a group of nine researchers. He is co-author of 79 publications and the co-inventor of four patents in the mentioned areas. Alois Zoitl conducted and lead several industry funded as well as publicly funded projects. He is a founding member of the O3neida automation network, a member of IEEE, the PLCopen user organization, as well as the IEC SC65B/WG15 for the distributed automation standard IEC 61499.