Alois Zoitl has been a researcher at fortiss since 2012. He received his PhD in 2007 at the Technical University in Vienna, where he worked as group research leader at the Institute of Automation and Control Engineering. His research interests include adaptive production systems, distributed control architectures, dynamic reconfiguration of control applications as well as software development and quality assurance methods for industrial automation. The 40-year old is co-owner of four patents and co-author of 110 publications. He will also continue his research work at fortiss in the future.