Markus Endler

PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

Summary

Markus Endler obtained his Dr. rer. nat. in Computer Science from the Technical University of Berlin (1992), and the Professor Livre-docente title (Habilitation) from the University of São Paulo (2001). From 1989 to 1993 he worked as a researcher at the GMD Research Institute Karlsruhe (Germany), and from 1994 to 2000 as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of São Paulo (USP). In 2001 he joined the Department of Informatics of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica in Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), where he is currently Associate Professor. His main research interests include Mobile and Pervasive Computing, IoT Middleware Architectures. Distributed Algorithms for Cooperation and Consensus, Online Data Analytics, and Data Stream Processing. As of 2020, he has supervised 13 PhD thesis and 30+ M.Sc. dissertations.

Autonomous Systems Computer Networks & Communications Distributed & Parallel Computing Emerging Technologies Mobile & Ubiquitous Computing

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ Computer Science

Work details

Associate Professor

PUC-Rio

March 2001

Departamento de Informática

He joined the Department of Informatics of PUC-Rio in 2001, where he does undergraduate and graduate level teaching, research and thesis supervision, executes administrative tasks and leads projects with the industry. In addition, he leads the Laboratory for Advanced Collaboration (LAC) - www.lac.inf.puc-rio.br, an applied research lab that does R&D in middleware for mobile/pervasive systems and internet of Things, and distributed stream processing. In LAC work several post-docs, Doctoral and master students, as well as several undergraduate students. From July 2020 until April 2024 he served as the Director of the Department of Informatics (DI) of PUC-Rio. DI is the pioneer Computer Science department on Brazil and has an acknowledged international high quality standard in teaching, research and systems innovation.