prof.dr. H. Brinksma (Ed)

Ed Brinksma is President of the Hamburg University of Technology as of February 2018. He also holds a full professorship in Computer Science (Formal Methods of Embedded Systems) at the University of Twente (UT) in the Netherlands.

In the period 2009-2016 Ed served as Rector Magnificus of the University of Twente. During his rectorate Ed was, among other things, responsible for he creation of the Twente Design Lab, a multi-disciplinary meeting platform students, staff and entrepreneurs for value creation. On the educational front, he oversaw the design and implementation of the Twente Educational Model, introducing student-centered learning through project-based, thematic modules as the buiding blocks for the UT undergraduate programmes.

Ed studied mathematics at the University of Groningen (1982), and obtained a doctorate in computer Science at the UT (1988). He served as dean of the Faculty of Computer Science at the UT (1995-1997), and was scientific director of the Embedded Systems Institute and professor of computer science at Eindhoven University of Technology (2005-2008). Ed also held a position as adjoint professor at the University of Aalborg.

As a researcher, Ed has worked and published extensively on the theory and application of formal methods, ranging from the specification and analysis of networking protocols and services, to model-based testing, verification and performance analysis of critical infrastructures and embedded systems. He has been the (co-)initiator of conferences as FORTE, QEST and TACAS.

Organisations

• Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS), Formal Methods and Tools (FMT)