Holger Hermanns is full professor at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, holding the chair of Dependable Systems and Software on Saarland Informatics Campus. He has previously held positions at Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, at Universiteit Twente, the Netherlands, and at INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes, France.

His research interests include modeling and verification of concurrent systems, resource-aware embedded systems, compositional performance and dependability evaluation, and their applications to space and energy informatics.

Holger Hermanns has authored or co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers (ha-index 92, h-index 56). He co-chaired the program committees of major international conferences such as CAV, CONCUR, TACAS and QEST, and delivered keynotes at about a dozen international conferences and symposia. He is president of the association "Friends of Dagstuhl e.V.".

Holger Hermanns received the Dutch "Vernieuwingsimpuls" Award, the German "Preis des Fakultätentages Informatik" Award, the CONCUR Test-of-Time Award, and the Jean-Claude Laprie Award on Dependable Computing. He is an ERC Advanced Grantee, elected member of Academia Europaea, and holds several other national and European research grants.