Thomas Hollstein is a full Professor at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences and part-time professor at the Department of Computer Engineering at Tallinn University of Technology (TUT). He graduated from Darmstadt University of Technology in Electrical Engineering / Computer Engineering in 1991. In 1992 he joined the research group of the “Microelectronic Systems Lab” at Darmstadt University of Technology. He worked in several research projects in neural and fuzzy computing and industrial VHDL based design. Since 1995 he focused his research on hardware/software codesign and in 2000 he received his Ph.D. on “Design and interactive Hardware/Software Partitioning of complex heterogeneous Systems” at Darmstadt University of Technology.
From 2000 to 2010 he has been working as a senior researcher , leading a research group focusing System-on-Chip (SoC) communication architectures. He has been an initiator for a new research initiative in the field of printed electronics at TU Darmstadt starting in 2005 has been leading a research group for printed electronics and RFIDs since 2005. This initiative led to a joint university/industry research lab, the TUD/Merck Lab . Since 2005 he has been responsible for the ITG/VDE competence initiative “Fokusprojekt RFID” and he is the initiator and main responsible for the European Workshop “RFID Systems and Technologies” (RFID-SysTech), which is continued as “Smart SysTech” - European Conference on Smart Objects, Systems and Technologies. In Darmstadt he has been giving a large number of lectures on VLSI design and CAD methods. Based on this teaching experiences and together with a colleague of the TU Darmstadt’s “2010 FLEXI Award for Leadership in Education” of the FlexTech Alliance (USA). From 2001 until 2010 he has been member of a leader team initiating and establishing a new international master programme in “Information & Communication Engineering” at Darmstadt University of Technology. From 2010 to 2015 Thomas Hollstein has been a full professor at Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia) in the field of “Dependable Embedded Systems” , continuing this position in part-time from 2105 on. From autumn 2015 he is full professor at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (Digital Systems). He is member of programme committees of several international conferences and workshops.