Univ.-Prof. Dr.sc.nat. Dr.rer.nat. Christoph Meinel (1954) is President and CEO of the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering gGmbH (HPI) and was founding dean of the Digital Engineering Faculty of the University of Potsdam. He is C4-professor for computer science and heads the department for Internet Technologies and Systems. Beside others Meinel is member of acatech, the National German Academy of Science and Engineering, and visiting professor in various national and international universities. He and his team developed the first European MOOC-platform openHPI as well as the development of a Schul-Cloud funded by the Federal German Ministry of Education and Sciences and meanwhile in use in schools all over Germany. He is program director of the HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Program.
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