| Claudia Linnhoff-Popien | |
| Birth Place: | Magdeburg, Germany |
| Birth Name: | Claudia Popien |
| Nationality: | German |
| Field: | Computer Science |
| Workplaces: | Aachen University Washington University Munich University |
| Alma Mater: | Leipzig University Aachen University |
| Thesis Title: | Dienstvermittlung in Verteilten Systemen |
| Thesis Url: | https://books.google.com/books?id=cTCYBwAAQBAJ |
| Thesis Year: | 1994 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Otto Spaniol |
| Known For: | Mobile and distributed computing |
| Website: | http://www.mobile.ifi.lmu.de |
Claudia Linnhoff-Popien is a German computer scientist.
Linnhoff-Popien finished her graduate studies in mathematics with focus informatics 1989 at Leipzig University. That followed a teaching and research work at Technical University, Magdeburg. Beginning in 1991 she worked as a research assistant at Aachen University of Technology,[1] where she earned her Ph.D. in 1994.[2] From 1995 to 1997 she did different lectureships at University of Essen. 1997 she worked as a research visitor at the Applied Research Institute of Washington University in St. Louis. In 1998, she finished her habilitation at Aachen University of Technology and joined the faculty of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich as an associate professor. Since 2003 she is full professor there for mobile and distributed computing.
Linnhoff-Popien is member of more than 50 programme committees of international conferences organized by IFIP, ACM, IEEE, Gesellschaft für Informatik, VDE and further organizations. She is expert witness for Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany) and German Academic Exchange Service. She works on several research projects supported by industry and government including distributed computing and ubiquitous computing as well as service discovery and context awareness.[3]