Bernardo Wagner (M'97) received the M.Sc. and a Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 1984 and 1989, respectively. From 1985 to 1988, he was head of the software reengineering group of GPP, Oberhaching/Münich, Germany. In 1991, he was appointed Professor of computer science at the University of Applied Sciences, Ulm, Germany, where he was in charge of the software laboratory. Until 1997, he worked on funded research projects and as a technical advisor of various industrial companies in the field of software testing, embedded systems, and automatic control. He has been full Professor at the University of Hanover, Germany, since March 1997, where he is in charge of the Real Time Systems Group of the Institute for Systems Engineering. He is currently the Dean of the computer science study program at the University of Hanover. Moreover, he is director of the Center for Technical Didactics at the University of Hanover, founded in 2000. He is a member of the Center for Mechatronics (MZH) and also of the research center L3S at the University of Hanover, where he works on remote services for devices, 3D-perception, real-time algorithms and system software for service robots. He gives lectures on programming, discrete control, design for real-time systems, and technical didactics. He supervises a laboratory on discrete control, a laboratory on digital hardware systems, and many student projects on autonomous robots and industrial informatics.