Christel Baier

Christel Baier (born 26 September 1965)[1] is a German theoretical computer scientist known for her work in model checking, temporal logic, and automata theory. She is a professor at TU Dresden, where she holds the chair for Algebraic and Logic Foundations of Computer Science in the Faculty of Computer Science.[2] Baier is the editor-in-chief of Acta Informatica.[3]

Education and career

Baier earned a diploma in mathematics at the University of Mannheim in 1990, and stayed at the same university for graduate study in computer science, completing her Ph.D. there in 1994.[2] Her dissertation, Transitionssystem- und Baum-Semantiken für CCS, was supervised by Mila Majster-Cederbaum.[4] She earned a habilitation at Mannheim in 1999.[2]

She became an associate professor for computer science at the University of Bonn in 1999, and moved to TU Dresden as a professor in 2006.[2]

Book

With Joost-Pieter Katoen, Baier is coauthor of the book Principles of Model Checking (MIT Press, 2008).[5]

Recognition

Baier was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2011.[6]

References
  1. Birth date from Academia Europaea new member list, 2011, retrieved 2020-10-04
  2. Short bio, TU Dresden, retrieved 2020-10-04
  3. "Editorial board", Acta Informatica, Springer, retrieved 2020-10-04
  4. Christel Baier at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. Reviews of Principles of Model Checking:
    • Ciobanu, Gabriel M., "Review", ACM Computing Reviews
    • Lange, Martin (2010), MathSciNet, MR 2493187CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Laroussinie, François (April 2009), The Computer Journal, 53 (5): 615–616, doi:10.1093/comjnl/bxp025CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  6. "Christel Baier", Member profiles, Academia Europaea, retrieved 2020-10-04
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