About the authors
Sebastian Lehnhoff is a Professor for Energy Information Systems at the University of Oldenburg. He received his doctorate at the TU Dortmund University in 2009. Prof. Lehnhoff is a member of the executive board of the Energy R&D division at the OFFIS Institute for Information Technology. He is speaker of the special interest group “Energy Informatics” within the German Informatics Society (GI), assoc. editor of the IEEE Computer Society's Computing and Smart Grid Special Technical Community as well as an active member of numerous committees and working groups focusing on ICT in future Smart Grids. His research interests are self-organizing energy systems, distribution grid automation as well as methods for Co-Simulation and experimental design in energy system engineering.
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Department für Informatik – Abteilung Energieinformatik, Escherweg 2, D-26121 Oldenburg
Astrid Nieße studied Computer Science at the University of Applied Sciences in Bremen and finished with a Diploma in 2005. After working for a software development company she started working at OFFIS – Institute for Information Technology in 2007. Since then, she has been involved in several research and development projects as researcher, project manager and group manager. In 2015 she finished her PhD at the Environmental Informatics group, University of Oldenburg. Her thesis is focussed on the development and application of distributed algorithms and agent-based systems for distributed energy management. Her focus of interest is how to develop distributed algorithms for Smart Grid applications with both a scientific and engineering aspiration and thus facilitate the transfer to practical applications. With this expertise, she is currently active in research projects, VDI/VDE committees and cofounder of the start-up company Particon GmbH, a spin-off from OFFIS division Energy.
OFFIS – Institute for Information Technology, Escherweg 2, D-26121 Oldenburg
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