Both our group's research and our lectures target several areas of computing systems and software engineering as well as their intersections in the following aspects:
In organizational respects, the group incorporates the Chair in Distributed Systems and Operating Systems in the Computer Science Department of the School of Engineering at FAU . About two-thirds of the group's staff is supported through third-party funds, mainly by the German Research Foundation (DFG) . Furthermore, we maintain research cooperations and ongoing projects with engineering industry such as Siemens Automation & Drive , Siemens Corporate Technology , and Elektrobit , amongst others.
The group is headed by Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat and additionally comprises 4 assistant professors, 24 postgraduates (scientific staff), 4 staff members, and 11 research students, currently (see People at CS 4 ).