Prof. Dr.-Ing. Birgit Vogel-Heuser

Academic Career and Research Areas

The research interests of Prof. Vogel-Heuser (*1961) are in the area of systems and software engineering as well as in the modeling of distributed and reliable embedded systems. Especially, her research foci are put on the challenges that result from the increasing demand to produce customer-specific products in the plant manufacturing domain. Engineering and education on hybrid processes and heterogeneous distributed and intelligent systems using a human centered approach are also included in her research area.

Birgit Vogel-Heuser received her Dipl. Ing. degree in electrical engineering in 1987 and her Dr.-Ing. degree in mechanical engineering in 1990 from the RWTH Aachen, Germany. Over ten years, she acquired industrial experience in industrial automation. After different professorship positions, she was appointed to the Chair of Automation and Information Systems at the Technical University Munich in 2009. Her research is focussing on evolvable field-level automation and appropriate architectures for manufacturing and logistics systems. She is a Fellow of the IEEE, IEEE RAS Distinguished Lecturer, Co-Chair of IEEE RAS TC Digital Manufacturing and Human-Centered Automation and a member of the National Academy of Science and Engineering in Germany (acatech). She has held the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany since 2024.

Awards

• Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2024)
• Special Award of Initiative D21 (2005)
• Borchers Badge of RWTH Aachen (1991)
• GfR promoting award (1990)
• Adam Opel Award (1989)