Martina Zitterbart is full professor in computer science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (former Universität Karlsruhe, TH). From 1987 to 1995 she was research assistant in Karlsruhe, receiving her doctoral degree in 1990. From 1991 to 1992 she was on leave of absence as a Visiting Scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown-Height, NY. She was Visiting Professor at the University of Magdeburg and the University of Mannheim and full professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig (1995 to 2001). Her primary research interests are in the areas of multimedia communication systems, mobile and ubiquituous computing, ambient technologies as well as wireless sensor networks. She is member of the IEEE, ACM and the German Gesellschaft für Informatik. In 2002, Martina Zitterbart received the Alcatel SEL research award on technical communication. In 2003, she was General Co-Chair of the ACM SIGCOMM conference which was held in Karlsruhe.
Employment
Since March 2001 | Full professor, Computer Science, Institute of Telematics, KIT |
1998 | Visiting scientist, IBM T.J. Watson Research Laboratory, New York, USA |
1995 | Visiting scientist, IBM T.J. Watson Research Laboratory, New York, USA |
1995-2001 | Full professor, Computer Science, Technical University of Braunschweig |
1994/95 | Visiting professor, winter term, University of Mannheim |
1994 | Visiting professor, summer term, University of Magdeburg |
1993 | Lectureship, „High performance networks“, Technical University of Ilmenau |
1991 and 1992 | Visiting scientist, IBM T.J. Watson Research Laboratory, New York, USA |
1989 | Visiting scientist, IBM Research Laboratory, Rüschlikon, Switzerland |
1987-1995 | Research assistant, Institute of Telematics, University of Karlsruhe |
Awards
2008 | Best compulsory lecture, Communication and Data Management |
2008 | TV spot on virtual power plants of 3SAT science magazine nano (www.3sat.de/mediathek/?obj=7303) – results of interdisciplinary project SESAM (self organisation and Sponaneity in liberalised and harmonised markets) |
2003 | Best compulsory lecture, Communication and Data Management |
2002 | Alcatel-SEL science award „technical communication“ |
1996 | Offer of a professor position at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg |
1992 | FZI award for best doctoral thesis in Computer Science, University of Karlsruhe |
1991 | Award for the best doctoral thesis in Computer Science, Special interest group „Communication and Distributed Systems“ of German Society for Computer Science (GI) |
1990 | Doctoral thesis with distinction |