Prof. Dr. – Ing. Herwig Unger is a full professor at the FernUniversität in Hagen (Germany) and the head of the Chair of Communication Networks in the Faculty for Mathematics and Computer Science.

Herwig Unger was born in 1966 in Halle/S. in the former GDR. He took a diploma in automation from the Technical University in Ilmenau in 1991 and received his doctoral degree  (Dr.-Ing.) in engineering science in 1994 with a work about the implementation of Petri Net models on multiprocessor computers from the same university. In 2000 he finished his habilitation (Dr.-Ing. habil.) with a work on large distributed and decentralized systems at the University of Rostock and got an extraordinary professorship there in 2004. In 2006 he followed a call and changed on his current position at the FernUniversität in Hagen.  Several projects, research stays and guest professorships e.g. in the USA, Canada and Thailand allowed him to extend his horizons.

His current research interests are in self-organization, adaptive and learning systems, Internet algorithms and simulation. Herwig Unger is a Fellow of the Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS) and a member of the German Society of Informatics.