Dr. Raimund Kirner is a Reader in Cyberphysical Systems at the University of Hertfordshire. He has published more than 100 refereed journal and conference papers and received two patents. He received his Ph.D. in 2003 from the TU Vienna and his Habilitation in 2010. His research focus is on embedded computing, parallel computing, and system reliability. He currently works on adequate hardware and software architectures to bridge the gap between the many-core computing and embedded computing. He also published excessively on worst-case execution time analysis and served as PC chair of WDES’06, WCET’08, and SEUS’13. He was the local principal investigator of the Artemis-JU project CRAFTERS and was a local co-investigator of the FP7 project ADVANCE. Further, he has been the principal investigator of three research projects funded by the Austrian Science Foundation (COSTA, FORTAS, SECCO). He is a senior member of IEEE, a member of the ACM and the IFIP Working Group 10.4 (Embedded Systems).