Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Karl was appointed to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), formerly the University of Karlsruhe (TH), Faculty of Computer Science in 2003. He studied computer science with a minor in mathematics at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. From 1987 to 2003, he was a research assistant at the Chair of Computer Technology and Computer Organization (Prof. Dr. Arndt Bode) at the Technical University of Munich. He received his doctorate in 1992 and habilitated in 2002 at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich. His research focuses on computer architecture, in particular on heterogeneous parallel computer architectures and their efficient use, adaptive and self-organizing systems, approximate computing.
 

Professional activities

• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
  • Head of the research group Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing
• Member of the HiPEAC Network of Excellence
• German Informatics Society (GI)
  • Member (since 1982)
  • Member of the extended board of the GI (2010 - 2013 and since 2020)
  • Member of the Presidium of the GI (2010 - 2015 and since 2020)
  • Speaker of the management committee of the Department of Computer Engineering
  • Member of the Steering Committee of the GI/ITG Technical Committee Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS)
  • Spokesperson of the Steering Committee of the GI/ITG Section Parallel Algorithms, Computer Structures and System Software PARS
• Information Technology Society VDE ITG
  • Spokesman of the Department of Computer Engineering
• Chairman of the Konrad-Zuse-Gesellschaft e.V.