Ulrich Weinberg

In 2007, shortly before the start of a sabbatical in China, Uli Weinberg was asked to establish and direct the D-School in May 2007. The research semester in Bejing was cancelled and the cornerstone laid for the new challenge. After 25 years of innovation work in the field of film and 3-D, of this 13 years as professor at the University of Film in Babelsberg, Uli Weinberg didn’t hesitate for a minute to accept the challenge of the new task – to visualize innovation in an even greater way than before now. After a year of D-School experience he was completely convinced of the success of group-based innovation and of realizing this vision at the “safe haven” of the D-School, under whose leadership the sailing aficionado has proven himself.

Holger Giese studied technical computer science at the University Siegen. He received his engineering degree with excellence in October 1995. In February 2001, he received a doctorate in Computer Science at the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Münster with summa cum laude. Until 2006, he was an assistant professor for object-oriented specification of distributed systems in the Software Engineering Group of the University of Paderborn. Since 2006, he was a Visiting Professor for System Analysis and Modeling at the Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering. He became a Full Professor for System Analysis and Modeling at the Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering in February 2008. He is member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the IEEE Computer Society, the German Informatics Society (GI), and the German University Council (DHV).