Marcel Baunach is Professor for Embedded Automotive Systems at the Institute of Technical Informatics at Graz University of Technology. With expertise in Wireless Sensor/Actuator Networks and as a former head of hardware development in the field of Automotive Diagnostics, he researches compositional hardware/software co-design with a focus on real-time operating systems, processor architectures and self-organizing wireless communication in highly dependable embedded systems for e.g. future vehicles, the Internet of Things or cyber-physical systems.