Manfred Broy (born 10 August 1949,

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) is a German

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, and an

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professor in the Department of Informatics at the

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Biography

Broy gained his

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(Ph.D.) in 1980 at the chair of

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on the subject of transformation of programs running in parallel ''(Transformation parallel ablaufender Programme)''. In 1983, he founded the faculty of mathematics and computer science at the

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, which dean he was until 1986. In 1989, he went to the

(TUM), where in 1992, he became the founding dean of the informatics faculty, which until then was an institute within the faculty of mathematics and informatics. Since then he has been teaching at the Technical University of Munich. In 2004, he was elected as a fellow of the

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and in 2007, he won the

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. He is also editor of the

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. Broy has been a director of the

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. He retired on 31 March 2015.

Selected books

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Broy, Manfred 1949 births Living people People from Landsberg am Lech Technical University of Munich alumni Academic staff of the Technical University of Munich German computer scientists Formal methods people Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners Academic staff of the University of Passau