As of February 27, 2024, Professor Andreas Wortmann was appointed to the chair of "Model-Based Development in Production Automation." Together with Alexander Verl and Oliver Riedel, he heads the Institute for Control Engineering of Machine Tools and Manufacturing Units (ISW) at the University of Stuttgart.

The goal is to develop novel concepts, methods, and tools for the systematic development and operation of the cyber-physical production systems of the future. This includes research on abstraction and automation:

• in modeling, to support domain experts in participating in value creation through software,
• through semantically founded software architectures that integrate domain-specific models during development, and
• by optimizing system operation with modeled domain knowledge and making it more sustainable through digital twins.

Andreas Wortmann studied computer science and business informatics at RWTH Aachen, earning degrees in Dipl.-Inform. and Dipl.-Wirt.Inf. He then worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Software Engineering at RWTH Aachen and at INRIA Rennes in France, focusing on the development of new methods for more precise domain-specific modeling of complex systems. After research stays in Gothenburg and Toulouse, he obtained his doctorate in 2016 at RWTH Aachen and subsequently conducted research as an academic councilor at the Chair of Software Engineering at RWTH Aachen as part of the "Internet of Production" excellence cluster, focusing on new abstraction techniques and automation methods for Industry 4.0. Since 2017, he has been a member of the board of the European Association for Programming Languages and Systems (EAPLS). Since 2020, he has been a member of the editorial board of the International Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM) and the Journal on Object Technology (JoT). In January 2021, he accepted the position of Junior Professor for "Model-Based Development in Production Automation" at the University of Stuttgart, and he received his habilitation in computer science at RWTH Aachen.