Computer Science Department
Professors of the computer science department

Prof. Dr. Sven Apel
Professor, Saarland UniversitySoftware Engineering and Programming Methodology

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael Backes
Scientific Director and Professor, Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA)Information Security and Cryptography

Prof. Dr. Karl Bringmann
Professor, Saarland UniversityAlgorithms and Complexity

Prof. Dr. Vera Demberg
Professor, Saarland UniversityComputer Science and Computational Linguistics

Prof. Dr. Peter Druschel
Scientific Director and Professor, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI SWS)Distributed Systems

Prof. Dr. Anna Maria Feit
Professor, Saarland UniversityComputational Interaction

Prof. Dr. Bernd Finkbeiner
Professor, Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA)Reactive Systems

Prof. Dr. Krishna Gummadi
Professor, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI SWS)Networked Systems

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Herfet
Professor, Saarland UniversityTelecommunications

Prof. Dr. Holger Hermanns
Professor, Saarland UniversityDependable Systems and Software

Prof. Dr. Jana Koehler
Scientific Director and Professor, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)Artificial Intelligence

Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger
Scientific Director and Professor, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)Ubiquitous Media Technologies

Prof. Dr. Martina Maggio
Professor, Saarland UniversitySoftware and Hardware Systems

Prof. Dr. Joël Ouaknine
Scientific Director and Professor, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI SWS)Software Systems

Prof. Dr. Christian Rossow
Professor, Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA)

Prof. Dr. Bernt Schiele
Scientific Director and Professor, Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI INF)Computer Vision and Machine Learning

Prof. Dr. Raimund Seidel
Professor, Saarland UniversityTheoretical Computer Science

Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Seidel
Scientific Director and Professor, Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI INF)Computer Graphics

Prof. Dr. Gert Smolka
Professor and Scientific Director, Saarland UniversityProgramming Systems

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Steimle
Professor and Scientific Director, Saarland UniversityHuman-Computer Interaction and Interactive Technologies

Prof. Dr. Joachim Weickert
Professor and Scientific Director, Saarland UniversityMathematical Image Analysis

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Weikum
Scientific Director and Professor, Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI INF)Databases and Information Systems
Co-opted professors

Prof. Dr. Josef van Genabith
Co-opted Professor, Saarland UniversityMultilingual Technologies

Prof. Dr. Volkhard Helms
Co-opted Professor, Saarland UniversityBioinformatics

Prof. Dr. Olga Kalinina
Co-opted Professor, Helmholtz-Center for Infection Research (HIPS)Computational Biology and Applied Algorithmics
Helmholtz-Center for Infection Research (HIPS)Saarland Informatics Campus
Bldg. E8 1, R. 12766123 SaarbrückenGermany
Bldg. E8 1, R. 12766123 SaarbrückenGermany
+49 (0)681 9880-63600
Assistant: +49 (0)681 9880-63009

Prof. Dr. Andreas Keller
Co-opted Professor, Saarland UniversityClinical Bioinformatics

Prof. Dr. Dietrich Klakow
Co-opted Professor, Saarland UniversitySpoken Language Systems

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Maaß
Co-opted Professor, Saarland UniversitySmart Service Engineering
Honorary professors

Prof. Dr. Cas Cremers
Professor, Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA)Security and Formal Methods

Prof. Dr. Derek Dreyer
Professor, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI SWS)Foundations of Programming

Prof. Dr. Deepak Garg
Professor, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI SWS)Computer Security and Privacy, Formal Logic, Programming Languages

Prof. Dr. Christian Theobalt
Professor, Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI INF)Graphics, Vision, and Video
Seniorprofessors

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Kurt Mehlhorn
Seniorprofessor, Saarland UniversityAlgorithms and Complexity
Junior Faculty

Dr. Björn Brandenburg
Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI SWS)Real-Time Systems

Dr.-Ing. Sven Bugiel
Group Leader, Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA)System Security

Dr. Renjie Chen
Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI INF)Images and Geometry

Dr. Maria Christakis
Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI SWS)Programming Languages & Verification

Dr. Rayna Dimitrova
Group Leader, Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA)

Dr. Nico Döttling
Group Leader, Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA)

PD Dr. Helmut Horacek
Group Leader, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)Multilingual Technologies

Dr. Swen Jacobs
Group Leader, Department of Computer Science
Department of Computer ScienceSaarland Informatics Campus
Bldg. E1 1, R. 113 Germany
Bldg. E1 1, R. 113 Germany
+49 (0)681 302-5666

Ph.D. Antoine Joux
Group Leader, Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA)

Dr. Andreas Karrenbauer
Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI INF)Combinatorial Optimization

PD Dr. Matthias Klusch
Group Leader, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)Intelligent Information Systems

Dr. Katharina Krombholz
Group Leader, Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA)

Dr. Jonathan Mace
Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI SWS)Cloud Software Systems

Ph.D. Daniel Marx
Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI INF)Parameterized Algorithms & Complexity

Dr. Stefan Nürnberger
Group Leader, Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA)Security and Privacy
Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA)Campus Bldg. E9 1, R. 2.0166123 SaarbrückenGermany
+49 (0)681 302-57364

Dr. Giancarlo Pellegrino
Group Leader, Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA)

Dr. Goran Radanovic
Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI SWS)

Dr. Simon Razniewski
Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI INF)Knowledge Base Construction and Quality

Ph.D. Rishiraj Saha Roy
Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI INF)Question Answering
Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI INF)Saarland Informatics Campus
Bldg. E1 4, R. 40766123 SaarbrückenGermany
Bldg. E1 4, R. 40766123 SaarbrückenGermany
+49 (0)681 9325-5007

Dr. Michael Schwarz
Group Leader, Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA)

Dr. Adish Singla
Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI SWS)Machine Learning

Dr. Daria Stepanova
Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI INF)Semantic Data

Dr.-Ing. Ben Stock
Group Leader, Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA)Web Security

Dr. Nils Ole Tippenhauer
Group Leader, Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA)

Dr. Andrew Yates
Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI INF)Searching, Mining, and Learning with Informal Text
Emeriti

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Günter Hotz
Emeritus, Saarland University

Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Lengauer
Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI INF)Computational Biology and Applied Algorithmics

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. August-Wilhelm Scheer
Co-opted Emeritus, Saarland UniversityInformation Systems (IWi)

Prof. Dr. Helge Scheidig
Emeritus, Saarland University

Prof. Dr. Jörg H. Siekmann
Emeritus, Saarland UniversityArtificial Intelligence

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster
Emeritus, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)Artificial Intelligence
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)Bldg. E1 1, R. 11766123 SaarbrückenGermany
+49 (0)681 302-2363
Assistant: +49 (0)681 302-4162