Alois Zoitl

Alois Zoitl
Professor, Cyber-Physical Systems
Johannes Kepler University

Alois has been Professor for Cyber-Physical Systems for Engineering and Production at the LIT Cyber-Physical Systems Lab since 2018.  Previously, he led the Industrial Automations research group at the research institute fortiss in Munich, Germany. He has conducted several research projects on distributed adaptive automation systems and has given lectures and consulted on IEC 61499 for more than ten years. He is co-author of more than 100 publications and the co-inventor of 4 patents. Alois is a founding member of the open source initiatives 4DIAC and OpENer. He is a member of the PLCopen user organization, consultant for CAN in Automation as well as the IEC SC65B/WG15 for the distributed automation standard IEC 61499.