Johannes Schiffer

Johannes Schiffer is a professor of control systems and network control technology at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany, in a joint appointment with the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Energy Infrastructuresand Geothermal Systems (IEG), where he heads the Business Area 'System Integration, Automation and Operation Management'. Prior to that, he held appointments as a lecturer (assistant professor) at the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, UK, and as a research associate in the Control Systems Group and as the Chair of Sustainable Electric Networks and Sources of Energy both at TU Berlin. Prof. Schiffer and his co-workers received the Automatica Paper Prize over the years 2014-16 and the at - Automatisierungstechnik Best Paper Award 2022. He currently also serves as co-coordinator of the Energy Innovation Center Cottbus (EIZ) and as coordinator of the EU MSCA Doctoral Network Dependable Smart Energy Systems (DENSE).