Gerhard Fohler has been holding the Chair for Real-time Systems at TU Kaiserslautern since 2006. He received his Dipl. Ing. and  Ph.D. degrees with honors from the TU Vienna,  Prof. Hermann Kopetz, then was with the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA as postdoctoral researcher. Before joining TU Kaiserslautern, he was with MDH Sweden where he was promoted to full professor.

His research is based on issues in the field of real-time, embedded systems, with emphasis on safety critical and flexible real-time systems and networks.

He has been involved in a number of EU projects,  coordinator and partner, and was core partner of the EU IST Networks-of-Excellence ARTIST. He was Chairman of the Technical Committee of ECRTS, the prime European conference on real-time systems, was member of the executive board of the real-time and embedded committees of the IEEE. He was program chair of the leading real-time conferences, regular member of most technical program committees in the area, and  was  associate editor of Springer's Real-time System Journal. He has been serving as expert reviewer for the EU IST embedded systems unit and other funding agencies.  He has been collecting insights, observations, thoughts on the procedures of scientific conferences, in particular paper evaluation and selection based on these experiences in a blog.

He has received the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-time Systems award for outstanding service to the real-time systems community and the ECRTS Outstanding Achievements Award for his efforts to turn ECRTS into one of the leading conferences in real-time systems. 

REFEREED CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PAPERS

•  Shreya Vithal Kulhalli, Mohammad Ibrahim Alkoudsi, and Gerhard Fohler. "Exploring and Exploiting Synchrony Limitations of Time-Triggered Network-Agnostic Guardians." In Proceedings of the 29th International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC), 2026 
• Luiz Maia, Mohammad Ibrahim Alkoudsi, Gerhard Fohler, "Ensuring End-To-End Latencies of Multi-Rate Cause-Effect Chains in Multi-Mode Systems Through Migration", 13th European Congress on Embedded Real Time Systems (ERTS) 2026
• Mohammad Ibrahim Alkoudsi, Damir Isovic, and Gerhard Fohler. ”Revisiting Slot- Shifting’s Offline Acceptance Test for Sporadic Tasks: A Technical Note”. Leibniz Transactions on Embedded Systems (LITES), Volume 10, Issue 1, pp. 4:1-4:6, 2025 - link
• Luiz Maia, Mario Günzel and Gerhard Fohler, "Safe Reconfiguration of LET Communication Intervals to Reduce End-to-End Latencies", 33rd International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS) 2025.
• Mohammad Ibrahim Alkoudsi, Sanjoy Baruah, Pontus Ekberg, Gerhard Fohler, Joël Goossens, Maryam Moslehi, "Extending Periodic Task Sets with Sporadic Tasks: Computational Complexity and Exact Feasibility Tests". In Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS '25). Pisa, Italy, 2025 **[Best Student Paper Award]**.
• Marcus Völp, Mohammad Ibrahim Alkoudsi, Azin Bayrami Asl, Kristin Krüger, Julio Rodrigues Mendonca da Neto, and Gerhard Fohler. “Defending Event-Triggered Systems against Out-of-Envelope Environments.” In Proceedings of the 2nd Work- shop on Real-Time Autonomous Systems Security (RT-AutoSec), 2025 - link.
• Luiz Maia and Gerhard Fohler, "Decreasing Utilization of Systems with Multi-Rate Cause-Effect Chains While Reducing End-to-End Latencies", 28th IEEE International Symposium On Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC) 2025 - link
• Isser Kadusale, Gautam Gala, Gerhard Fohler, "WASM and Containers for Real-Time Serverless Edge Computing", Junior Researcher Workshop on Real-Time Computing (JRWRTC) 2024 co-hosted with 32nd International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems.
• Mohammad Ibrahim Alkoudsi and Gerhard Fohler. “Scheduling Dynamic Task- Sets in Time-Triggered Real-Time Systems.” In Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS), 2024 link. **[Outstanding Paper Award]**.
• Luiz Maia and Gerhard Fohler, "Reducing End-to-End Latencies of Multi-Rate Cause-Effect Chains in Safety Critical Embedded Systems", 12th European Congress on Embedded Real Time Systems (ERTS) 2024.
• Gautam Gala, Tilmann Unte, Luiz Maia, Johannes Kühbacher, Isser Kadusale, Mohammad Ibrahim Alkoudsi, Gerhard Fohler, and Sebastian Altmeyer, "Safety-Critical Edge Robotics Architecture with Bounded End-to-End Latency" in the 3rd International Workshop on Real-time Cloud Systems, 2024, Lille, France.
• Allan Valle, Gautam Gala, and Gerhard Fohler, "Work in Progress: Memory Bandwidth Manager in gem5 for Mixed-Criticality Applications", Work-in-progress (Poster), 36th Euromicro conference on Real-time systems, Lille, France.
• Antonio Savino, Gautam Gala, Marcello Cinque and Gerhard Fohler, "Multicore DRAM Bank-& Row-Conflict Bomb for Timing Attacks in Mixed-Criticality Systems" in 27th IEEE International Symposium On Real-Time distributed Computing (IEEE ISORC), 2024, Tunis, Tunisia. Best paper award.
• Giorgio Farina, Gautam Gala, Marcello Cinque, and Gerhard Fohler, Enabling memory access isolation in real-time cloud systems using Intel’s detection/regulation capabilities, Journal of Systems Architecture, 2023.
• Jan Ruh, Wilfried Steiner and Gerhard Fohler, Clock Synchronization in Virtualized Distributed Real-Time Systems Using IEEE 802.1AS and ACRN, Sept. 2021, IEEE Access

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