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Prof. Dr. Paul Molitor (*1959, Luxembourg) studied Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Saarbrücken (Diplom 1982, Promotion 1986, Habilitation 1992). He was member of the scientific staff of Prof. Dr. Gunter Hotz (1982-1994) in the National Research Center 124 "VLSI and Parallelism" (1992-1994). In 1993, he was with the Humboldt-University of Berlin as Associate Professor for Circuit Technology. Since 1994 he is a Full Professor for Computer Engineering at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU).
Prof. Dr. Molitor's interests concern not only Technical Computer Science, in particular Formal Hardware Verification, but also Combinatorial Optimization and Digital Humanities/eHumanities. Prof. Molitor acquired and led more than 15 externally funded projects, including 9 projects funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), 5 projects funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), and 1 project funded by the VolkswagenStiftung, as well as several industry projects.He is author of 4 lecture books and more than 100 research papers.
Prof. Dr. Molitor was/is managing director of the Institute for Computer Science in 1994-1998, 2000-2003, and 2010-2022. He was chairman of the "Landes-Hochschul-DV-Kommission" (1995-2014) and the IT Board of the Universities of Saxony-Anhalt (2015-2016). For about 20 years, he was chairman of the IT steering group of MLU. From 2003 to 2017 and from 2021 to 2023, he was Editor-in-Chief of it - Information Technology, De Gruyter, the oldest German scientific journal on information technology (launched in 1959).