Björn Andersson celebrates 5 years with CISTER

It was 5 years ago that, after an international call for invited scientists, researcher Björn Andersson started his tenure as one of the leading scientists in CISTER. Björn obtained his master in electrical engineering at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden in 1999, receiving the Swedish National Real-Time Association best master of science thesis award. He went to the University of Virginia as a visiting scientist, where he worked in extending static-priority scheduling from uniprocessors to multiprocessors systems, and earned his Ph.D. degree at Chalmers University of Technology in 2004.

During these years in the CISTER Research Center, Björn has been performing outstandingly, and is arguably one of the most prominent ICT researchers currently in Portugal. Björn became responsible for the research on multicore systems within CISTER, and is currently one of the most respected researchers worldwide in the increasingly important area of real-time multiprocessor systems. He currently leads two fairly large FCT projects (RESCORE and REHEAT), a FLAD project (REJOIN) in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a FP7 cluster (SDP) in collaboration with various partners members the CONET European Network of Excellence (http://www.cooperating-objects.eu). He is also one of the CISTER’s senior researchers involved in the European Project RECOMP.   Björn has a track record of more than 50 papers in leading scientific journals and international conferences, and 4 patent applications and one spin-off company. He has also been very active in the ICTI Portugal Carnegie Mellon initiative, as well as other Doctoral programs in which CISTER is directly involved.