Dr. Oliver Hohlfeld took over as Head of the Department of Distributed Systems in the winter semester 22/23. In his research, he investigates the internet as one of the most complex man-made systems with an internet observatory and uses artificial intelligence to make it smarter and better protected against cyber attacks.
Oliver Hohlfeld studied at the TU Darmstadt. He then moved to TU Berlin and Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, where he received his doctorate in 2013. He was a visiting researcher at the University of Wisconsin in the USA and a post-doc/section head at RWTH Aachen University before being appointed as a university professor at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg in 2019, where he headed the Chair of Computer Networks and Communication Systems before moving to Kassel.