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The Oldenburger OFFIS - Institut für Informatik (OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology) is a research institute located in the city of
Oldenburg Oldenburg may also refer to: Places *Mount Oldenburg, Ellsworth Land, Antarctica *Oldenburg (city), an independent city in Lower Saxony, Germany **Oldenburg (district), a district historically in Oldenburg Free State and now in Lower Saxony *Olde ...
, Germany. The institute was founded on July 6, 1991, and works closely together with the
Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (german: Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg) is a university located in Oldenburg (city), Oldenburg, Germany. It is one of the most important and highly regarded educational facilities in no ...
. OFFIS is an application-oriented research and development institute and a center of excellence for selected areas of information technology and its fields of application.


Organization

The institute is divided in four research divisions Energy, Health, Society and Manufacturing.
The Energy division focuses on energy management and the energy efficiency of digital systems.
In the Health division, research focuses on enabling humans to live in a condition of full physical, mental, and social well-being.
The Society division focuses on technological innovations for a sustainable digital society and the associated design framework in science, business, and politics.
The Manufacturing division transfers its ICT competences for Industry 4.0 from practice-oriented research into the economy so that it can actively participate in shaping the digital transformation.
Alongside the four application-oriented departments, the institute established seven technology-focussed competence clusters: *Architecture Frameworks (AF) *Cyber Resilient Architectures and Security (CRAS) *Deep Learning (DL) *Embedded System Design (ESD) *Human Machine Cooperation (HMC) *Multi-Scale Multi-Rate Simulation (MS²) *Safety Relevant Cyber-Physical Systems (SRCPS) *Sustainability


Executive Board

The OFFIS executive board has three members: * Prof. Dr. Sebastian Lehnhoff (Chairman) * Prof. Dr. Susanne Boll * Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Hein


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OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology
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