Peter Fritzson is Professor since 1995 and research director of the Programming Environment Laboratory (PELAB), at Link?ping University. He is also director of the Open Source Modelica Consortium (OSMC), director of the MODPROD center for model-based product development, and vice chairman of the Modelica Association, organizations he helped to establish. During 1999-2007 he served as chairman of the Scandinavian Simulation Society, and secretary of the European simulation organization, EuroSim. He received his M.Sc. in engineering 1975 and PhD 1984 in computer science from Link?ping University. He was project leader at Sun MicroSystems, California, 1985-86, and visiting professor at University of Queensland, Australia, 2007-2008. Prof. Fritzson's current research interests is in software engineering, especially programming languages, high level specification and modeling languages, programming and debugging tools and environments, parallel and multi-core computing, compilers and compiler generators (e.g. RML). During recent years he has put special emphasis on tools and languages for object-oriented modeling and simulation, and is one of the founding fathers of the Modelica language. He is currently leading the OpenModelica open source effort.
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