In April 2023, Professor Marco Zimmerling joined the team of PIs at emergenCITY in the KOM (Communication) program area. The 40-year-old took over a professorship for Resilient Networked Computing at the Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt and, after Vahid Jamali, is the second professor funded by the LOEWE center emergenCITY.

The computer scientist completed his PhD in computer engineering at ETH Zurich in a research group of Lothar Thiele before leading a research group at the Center for Advancing Electronics at TU Dresden for seven years. Most recently, Zimmerling worked at the University of Freiburg, where he headed the Networked Embedded Systems Lab at the Department of Computer Science.

Zimmerling’s research focuses on wireless embedded systems and he works on making them reliable, adaptable and sustainable. The interdisciplinary intersections thereby are of particular interest to him: Links between hardware and software, between computer science and electrical engineering, of course, but also the overlap with topics such as sustainability are present in his works.