I am a professor for Embedded Software Engineering at OST, Institute for Communication Systems (ICOM). Additionally, I work as a lecturer at the IBR. My academic work focuses on:

• Embedded and distributed systems
• Low-latency system architectures and algorithms
• Neuromorphic Computing

Short CV

• 1997 Abitur (general qualification for university entrance)
  school: Gymnasium Salzgitter-Bad
• computer science and computer engineering studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• diploma thesis: "Ein optimierter Algorithmus zur Berechnung der Disparitäten aus Stereobilddaten und dessen Hardwareimplementation" (supervisors: Prof. Dr.-Ing. B. Meffert and Dr.-Ing. F. Winkler)
• July 2002: university degree in computer science (Diplom-Informatiker)
• August 2002 - December 2004: PhD student at the L3S
• November 2004 - December 2004: teaching position at the University of Lübeck
• Januar 2005 - March 2007: Researcher at the Institute of Telematics, University of Lübeck
• August 2006: Doctoral Degree in Computer Science (Dr.-Ing.). Supervisor and first reviewer: Prof. Dr. Stefan Fischer, second reviewer: Prof. Dr. Volker Linnemann, third reviewer: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Effelsberg)
• February 2007: Award: Staatlicher Universitätspreis der Technisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität zu Lübeck for the thesis "Optimierte Protokolle für Web Services mit begrenzten Datenraten"
• April 2007 - January 2010: Assistant Professor at the Institute of Telematics, University of Lübeck
• November 2009 - Feburuary 2018: Head of the IT department at the Federal Office for Radiation Protection
• July 2011: Habilitation (postdoctoral lecture qualification) in Computer Sciene, University of Lübeck
• July 2011 - February 2012: Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Lübeck
• February 2012: Umhabilitation (postdoctoral lecture qualification at a different university) at the Carl-Friedrich-Gauß-Fakultät, TU Braunschweig
• since February 2012: Lecturer in Computer Science at the TU Braunschweig
• since March 2018: Professor at the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Automotive Engineering(currently on leave)
• since September 2022: Professor at OST, ICOM

Courses at TU Braunschweig

• Lab: Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen I (WS 02/03)
• Lab: Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen II (SS 03)
• Lab: Softwareentwicklungspraktikum (SS 03)
• Lab: Enterprise Applications (WS 03/04)
• Test: Praktische Informatik 1 (WS 03/04)
• Lab: Enterprise Applications (SS 04)
• Lab: Praktikum Enterprise Applications (WS 04/05)
• Lecture: Verteilte Systeme (SS 11)
• Lecture: Systemarchitekturen für Verteilte Anwendungen (WS 11/12)
• Lab: Seminar Verteilte Systeme (SS 12)
• Lab: "Enterprise Applications" (WS 12/13)
• Lab: Seminar Verteilte Systeme (SS 13)
• Lecture: Systemarchitekturen für Verteilte Anwendungen (WS 13/14)
• Lab: Seminar Verteilte Systeme (SS 14)
• Lecture: Systemarchitekturen für Verteilte Anwendungen (WS 14/15)
• Lab: Seminar Verteilte Systeme (SS 15)
• Lecture: Systemarchitekturen für Verteilte Anwendungen (WS 15/16)
• Lab: Seminar Verteilte Systeme (SS 16)
• Lecture: Systemarchitekturen für Verteilte Anwendungen (WS 16/17)
• Lab: Seminar Verteilte Systeme (SS 17)
• Lecture: Systemarchitekturen für Verteilte Anwendungen (WS 17/18)
• Lecture: Systemarchitekturen für Verteilte Anwendungen (WS 18/19)
• Lecture: Systemarchitekturen für Verteilte Anwendungen (WS 19/20)
• Lab: Seminar Verteilte Systeme (SS 20)
• Lab: Seminar Verteilte Systeme (SS 21)
• Lecture: Systemarchitekturen für Verteilte Anwendungen in der beruflichen Praxis (WS 21/22)

Courses at University of Lübeck

• Lab: Betriebs- und Kommunikationssysteme (WS 04/05)
• Lab: Praktikum Betriebs- und Kommunikationssysteme (SS 05)
• Lab: Praktikum Betriebs- und Kommunikationssysteme (WS 05/06)
• Diplomanden- und Doktorandenseminar (WS 05/06)
• Lab: Betriebs- und Kommunikationssysteme (SS 06)
• Diplomanden- und Doktorandenseminar (SS 06)
• Lab:Programmieren (WS 06/07)
• Diplomanden- und Doktorandenseminar (WS 06/07)
• Lecture: Systemarchitekturen für Verteilte Anwendungen (SS 07)
• Lab: Betriebs- und Kommunikationssysteme (SS 07)
• Diplomanden- und Doktorandenseminar (SS 07)
• Lecture: Verteilte Systeme (WS 07/08)
• Lab: Praktikum Serviceorientierte Systemintegration (WS 07/08)
• Diplomanden- und Doktorandenseminar (WS 07/08)
• Lab: Betriebs- und Kommunikationssysteme (SS 08)
• Lecture: Systemarchitekturen für Verteilte Anwendungen (SS 08)
• Diplomanden- und Doktorandenseminar (SS 08)
• Lecture: Programmieren (WS 08/09)
• Diplomanden- und Doktorandenseminar (WS 08/09)
• Lecture: Systemarchitekturen für Verteilte Anwendungen (SS 09)
• Diplomanden- und Doktorandenseminar (SS 09)

Publications

• Arndt Buschmann, Christian Werner, Stefan Schmidt and Stefan Fischer: Protokollunterstützung für SOAP Web Services auf mobilen Geräten, in PIK - Praxis der Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation, Themenheft Web Services, Vol. 27, No. 3, pages 140-144, 2004 (BWSF04, BibTeX)
• Christian Werner, Carsten Buschmann and Stefan Fischer: Compressing SOAP Messages by using Differential Encoding, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services, San Diego, CA, USA, pages 540-547, July 2004 (WBF04, BibTeX)
• Daniel Hoppe, Christian Werner and Stefan Fischer: Rechtliche Grundlagen für den Umgang mit Lernobjekten, in Delfi 2004: Die 2. e-Learning Fachtagung Informatik, Lecture Notes in Informatics, pages 385-386, Gesellschaft für Informatik, September 2004 (HWF04, BibTeX)
• Stefan Fischer, Ulrich Walther, Stefan Schmidt and Christian Werner: Linux-Netzwerke: Aufbau, Administration und Sicherung, 2. erweiterte und aktualisierte Auflage, Millin Verlag, 2005 (FWSW05, BibTeX)
• Christian Werner, Carsten Buschmann and Stefan Fischer: WSDL-Driven SOAP Compression, in International Journal of Web Services Research, Vol. 2, No. 1, pages 18-35, Idea Group, 2005 (WBF05, BibTeX, eingeladener Beitrag)
• Martin Gutbrod, Christian Werner and Stefan Fischer: Time-based content marks for fine-grained navigation in educational content, in Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference e-Society, Malta, pages 3-10, June 2005 (GWF05, BibTeX)
• Christian Werner, Carsten Buschmann, Tobias Jäcker and Stefan Fischer: Enhanced Transport Bindings for Efficient SOAP Messaging, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services, Orlando, FL, USA, pages 193-200, July 2005 (WBJF05, BibTeX)
• Martin Gutbrod, Christian Werner and Stefan Fischer: Mehr Flexibilität bei Rapid E-Learning - Plattformunabhängige Repräsentation aller Kursdaten, in Delfi 2005: Die 3. e-Learning Fachtagung Informatik, Rostock, pages 93-104, September 2005 (GWF05-2, BibTeX)
• Christian Werner: Patentanmeldung - Verfahren zur Kompression, Dekompression und Verarbeitung von Datensätzen - Aktenzeichen: DE 10 2005 056 122.5, Universität zu Lübeck, November 2005 (patent, BibTeX, Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt, München)
• Martin Gutbrod, Christian Werner and Stefan Fischer: Platform-Independent Authoring and Production of Rapid E-Learning Content, in Interactive Technology and Smart Education Journal, Vol. 3, No. 3, pages 197-206, Troubador, 2006 (GWF06, BibTeX, eingeladener Beitrag)
• Christian Werner, Carsten Buschmann, Tobias Jäcker and Stefan Fischer: Bandwidth and Latency Considerations for Efficient SOAP Messaging, in International Journal of Web Services Research, Vol. 3, No. 1, pages 49-67, Idea Group, 2006 (WBJF06, BibTeX, eingeladener Beitrag)
• Torsten Klie, Uwe Frommann, Christian Werner, Stefan Fischer, Astrid Weilert, Christoph Klinzmann, Dietmar Hosser, Jan Zimmermann and Manfred Krafczyk: Vorlesungsskripte im E-Learning-Zeitalter, in Proceedings of Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik, Passau, pages 245-256, February 2006 (kfw06, BibTeX)
• Christian Werner, Carsten Buschmann, Ylva Brandt and Stefan Fischer: Compressing SOAP Messages by using Pushdown Automata, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services, Chicago, IL, USA, pages 19-28, September 2006 (WBBF06, BibTeX)
• Christian Werner: Patentanmeldung - Compression method for a data transfer that is independent of computer architecture and/or decompression method for a data record - Aktenzeichen: US 12/094761, November 2006 (patent2, BibTeX, United States Patent and Trademark Office , Alexandria, VA, USA)
• Christian Werner: Patentanmeldung - Verfahren zur Kompression für einen rechnerarchitekturunabhängigen Datentransfer und/oder zur Dekompression eines Datensatzes - Aktenzeichen: EP 06 818 083.5, Universität zu Lübeck, November 2006 (patent3, BibTeX, Europäisches Patentamt, München)
• Christian Werner: Optimierte Protokolle für Web Services mit begrenzten Datenraten, Logos Verlag, 2007 (W07, BibTeX, Dissertation)
• Christian Werner: Binäre Codierungen für Web Service Nachrichten, in PIK - Praxis der Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation, Vol. 30, No. 1, pages 44-51, 2007 (W07b, BibTeX)
• Christian Werner, Carsten Buschmann and Stefan Fischer: Advanced Data Compression Techniques for SOAP Web Services, in Modern Technologies in Web Services Research, Liang-Jie Zhang, pages 76-97, IGI Publishing, 2007 (WBF-zhangbook2007, BibTeX)
• Christian Werner: Effiziente Codierungen für SOAP-Nachrichten, in Ausgezeichnete Informatikdissertationen 2006, Abraham Bernstein and Thomas Dreier and Steffen Hölldobler and Günter Hotz and Klaus-Peter Löhr and Paul Molitor and Rüdiger Reischuk and Dietmar Saupe and Myra Spiliopoulou and Dorothea Wagner, pages 209-218, Gesellschaft für Informatik, 2007 (gi-dissband-07, BibTeX)
• Christian Werner and Stefan Fischer: Architecture and Standardization of Web Services, in Semantic Web Services: Concepts, Technologies, and Applications, Rudi Studer and Stephan Grimm and Andreas Abecker, pages 13-34, Springer, 2007 (sws-buch, BibTeX)
• Stefan Fischer and Christian Werner: Towards Service-Oriented Architectures, in Semantic Web Services: Concepts, Technologies, and Applications, Rudi Studer and Stephan Grimm and Andreas Abecker, pages 3-11, Springer, 2007 (sws-buch2, BibTeX)
• Carsten Buschmann, Christian Werner, Horst Hellbrück and Stefan Fischer: NIDES: Ein Verfahren zur Multihop-Distanzschätzung mittels Nachbarschaftsanalyse, in Proceedings of the 15. ITG/GI - Fachtagung Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen (KiVS), Bern, Schweiz, pages 151-162, February 2007 (Buschmann07nides, BibTeX)
• Dennis Pfisterer, Marco Wegner, Horst Hellbrück, Christian Werner and Stefan Fischer: Energy-optimized Data Serialization For Heterogeneous WSNs Using Middleware Synthesis, in Proceedings of The Sixth Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (Med-Hoc-Net 2007), Korfu, Griechenland, pages 180-187, June 2007 (pfisterer07microfibre, BibTeX)
• Alexander Carôt and Christian Werner: Network Music Performance - Problems, Approaches and Perspectives, in Proceedings of the Music in the Global Village Conference, Budapest, Ungarn, pages 83-96, September 2007 (MITGV, BibTeX)
• Christian Werner: Xenia - die smarte XML-Kompression aus Lübeck, in FOCUS MUL, Vol. 24, No. 3, pages 146-151, September 2007 (WernerMUL07, BibTeX, kein Peer-Review)
• Beda Christoph Hammerschmidt, Christian Werner, Ylva Brandt, Volker Linnemann, Sven Groppe and Stefan Fischer: Incremental Validation of String-based XML Data in Databases, File Systems, and Streams, in Proceedings of The Eleventh East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2007), Varna, Bulgarien, pages 314-329, September 2007 (adbis07, BibTeX)
• Ulrich Kraemer, Jens Hirschfeld, Gerald Schuller, Stefan Wabnik, Alexander Carôt and Christian Werner: Network Music Performance with Ultra-Low-Delay Audio Coding under Unreliable Network Conditions, in Proceedings of the 123rd Audio Engineering Society Convention, New York, NY, USA, pages 338-348, October 2007 (aes123, BibTeX)
• Christian Werner, Carsten Buschmann, Ylva Brandt and Stefan Fischer: XML Compression for Web Services on Resource-Constrained Devices, in International Journal of Web Services Research, Vol. 5, No. 3, pages 44-63, 2008 (WBBF08, BibTeX, eingeladener Beitrag)
• Christian Werner, Carsten Buschmann and Stefan Fischer: Efficient Encodings for Web Service Messages, in Web Services Research and Practices, Liang-Jie Zhang, pages 1-22, CyberTech Publishing, 2008 (cbf08, BibTeX)
• Christian Werner, Carsten Buschmann, Tobias Jäcker and Stefan Fischer: Efficient Transport Bindings for Web Service Messages, in Web Services Research and Practices, Liang-Jie Zhang, pages 83-109, CyberTech Publishing, 2008 (cbjf08, BibTeX)
• Martin Lipphardt, Jana Neumann, Nils Hoeller, Christoph Reinke, Sven Groppe, Volker Linneman and Christian Werner: XML und SOA als Wegbereiter für Sensornetze in der Praxis, in PIK - Praxis der Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation, Vol. 29, No. 3, pages 146-152, 2008 (lipphardt08pikaesop, BibTeX)
• Alexander Carôt, Christian Werner and Alain Renaud: Audible ICMP Echo Responses for Monitoring Ultra Low Delayed Audio Streams, in Proceedings of the 124th AES-Convention, Amsterdam, Niederlande, pages 79-85, May 2008 (AES124, BibTeX)
• Stephan Pöhlsen, Frank Franz, Kai Kück, Jörg-Uwe Meyer and Christian Werner: Fair-Queued Ethernet for Medical Applications, in Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA08), Cambridge, MA, USA, pages 152-159, July 2008 (PFKMW08, BibTeX)
• Stephan Pöhlsen and Christian Werner: Robust Web Service Discovery in Large Networks, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2008), Honolulu, HI, USA, pages 521-524, July 2008 (PW08, BibTeX)
• Alexander Carôt and Christian Werner: Prinzipien musikalischer Telepräsenz, in Tagungsband der 25. Deutschen Tonmeistertagung, Leipzig, pages 137, November 2008 (carot08tmt, BibTeX)
• Martin Lipphardt, Jana Neumann and Christian Werner: Self-organizing Service Distribution (Demo), in Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Raleigh, NC, USA, pages 389-390, November 2008 (lipphardt08dysscodemo, BibTeX)
• Stephan Pöhlsen, Carsten Buschmann and Christian Werner: Integrating a Decentralized Web Service Discovery System into the Internet Infrastructure, in Proceedings of the 6th IEEE European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS'08), Dublin, Irland, pages 13-20, November 2008 (poehlsen2008wsd, BibTeX)
• Martin Lipphardt, Jana Neumann, Sven Groppe and Christian Werner: DySSCo - A protocol for Dynamic Self-organizing Service Coverage, in Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems, Wien, Österreich, pages 109-120, December 2008 (lipphardt08dyssco, BibTeX)
• Christian Werner, Carsten Buschmann, Ylva Brandt and Stefan Fischer: XML Compression for Web Services on Resource-Constrained Devices, in Services and Business Computing Solutions With XML, Patrik C. K. Hung, pages 156-175, IGI Global, 2009 (WBBF-hungbook2009, BibTeX)
• Alexander Carôt and Christian Werner: External latency-optimized soundcard synchronization for applications in wide-are networks, in Proceedings of the 14th regional AES Convention, Tokio, Japan, 2009 (aes2009-tokyo, BibTeX, Veröffentlicht auf CD-ROM)
• Nils Glombitza, Martin Lipphardt, Christian Werner and Stefan Fischer: Using Graphical Process Modeling for Realizing SOA Programming Paradigms in Sensor Networks, in Sixth Annual Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems and Services, Snowbird, UT, USA, pages 61-70, February 2009 (Glombitza2009WONS, BibTeX)
• Alexander Carôt and Christian Werner: Verteiltes Musizieren mit Soundjack, in FKT - Fachzeitschrift für Fernsehen, Film und elektronische Medien, Vol. 63, pages 73-75, March 2009 (FKT, BibTeX)
• Alexander Carôt, Torben Hohn and Christian Werner: Netjack - Remote music collaboration with electronic sequencers on the Internet, in Proceedings of the Linux Audio Conference, Parma, Italien, April 2009 (chw09, BibTeX, Veröffentlicht auf CD-ROM)
• Stephan Pöhlsen, Stefan Schlichting, Markus Strähle, Frank Franz and Christian Werner: A Concept for a Medical Device Plug-and-Play Architecture based on Web Services, in Proceedings of the 2nd Joint Workshop On High Confidence Medical Devices, Software, and Systems (HCMDSS) and Medical Device Plug-and-Play (MD PnP) Interoperability, San Francisco, CA, USA, pages 52-65, April 2009 (poehlsen2009mdpnp, BibTeX)
• Alexander Carôt and Christian Werner: Fundamentals and Principles of Musical Telepresence, in Citar - Revista de Ciência e Tecnologias das Artes , Vol. 2, pages 26-37, May 2009 (citar, BibTeX)
• Alexander Carôt and Christian Werner: Patentanmeldung: Verfahren zur Synchronisation an unterschiedlichen Orten arbeitender Prozessoren über einen asynchronen Kommunikationskanal - Aktenzeichen DE 10 2009 025 495.1, Universität zu Lübeck, June 2009 (synchronisierung-patent, BibTeX, Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt, München)
• Stephan Pöhlsen, Stefan Schlichting, Markus Strähle, Frank Franz and Christian Werner: A Concept for a Medical Device Plug-and-Play Architecture based on Web Services, in ACM SIGBED Review, Vol. 6, No. 2, pages 7, July 2009 (poehlsen-sigbed, BibTeX, elektronisch publizierte Zeitschrift)
• Nils Hoeller, Christoph Reinke, Jana Neumann, Sven Groppe, Christian Werner and Volker Linnemann: Towards Energy Efficient XPath Evaluation in Wireless Sensor Networks, in Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks (DMSN 2009, co-located with VLDB 2009), Lyon, Frankreich, pages 1-2, ACM, August 2009 (DMSN09, BibTeX)
• Alexander Carôt, Christian Werner and Timo Fischinger: Towards a Comprehensive Cognitive Analysis of Delay-Influenced Musical Interaction, in Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Montreal, Kanada, pages 473-476, August 2009 (icmc09, BibTeX)
• Stephan Pöhlsen, Stefan Schlichting, Markus Strähle, Frank Franz and Christian Werner: A DPWS-based Architecture for Medical Device Interoperability, in Proceedings of the Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering World Congress 2009, München, pages 82-84, September 2009 (pssfw2009, BibTeX)
• Stefan Ransom and Christian Werner: Towards Data-Centric Security in Ubiquitous Computing Environments, in Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Embedded Data-Centric Systems (EDACS'09), Linz, Österreich, pages 26-30, September 2009 (ransom2009edacs, BibTeX)
• Martin Lipphardt, Nils Glombitza, Jana Neumann and Christian Werner: A Service-oriented Operating System and an Application Development Infrastructure for Wireless Sensor Networks, in Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2009), Berkeley, CA, USA, pages 309-310, November 2009 (Lipphardt2009Sensys, BibTeX)
• Nils Hoeller, Christoph Reinke, Jana Neumann, Sven Groppe, Christian Werner and Volker Linnemann: XML Data Management and XPath Evaluation in Wireless Sensor Networks, in Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia (ACM MoMM2009), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pages 218-227, December 2009 (hoellerMOMM09, BibTeX)
• Christian Werner, Carsten Buschmann, Ylva Brandt and Stefan Fischer: Efficient and Effective XML Encoding, in Web Services Research for Emerging Applications, Liang-Jie Zhang, pages 250-269, IGI Publishing, 2010 (WBBF-zhangbook2010, BibTeX)
• Christian Werner and Ulrike Schneider: Open Source als Triebfeder für erfolgreiche Softwareprojekte in der öffentlichen Verwaltung, in Software Engineering 2014 - Fachtagung des GI-Fachverbands Softwaretechnik, Kiel, Germany, pages 193-194, February 2014 (WS14, BibTeX)
• Christian Werner and Boris Girnat: Towards Self-Motivated Learning in Computer Science Education: Results of a Questionnaire Study, in Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE'20), Trondheim, Norway, pages 26–32, June 2020 (WG20, BibTeX)
• Christian Werner and Robert Kraneis: UNISON: a Novel System for Ultra-Low Latency Audio Streaming Over the Internet, in Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC'21), Las Vegas, USA (virtual conference), January 2021 (WK21CCNC, BibTeX, (accepted for publication, work-in-progress track))
• Ramon Moscatelli, Kevin Stahel, Robert Kraneis and Christian Werner: Why Real-Time Matters: Performance Evaluation of Recent Ultra-Low Latency Audio Communication Systems, in Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC'24), Las Vegas, NV, USA, pages 1-7, January 2024 (Moscatelli2024CCNC, BibTeX)