Hon.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Otter ‒ Short Biography

since 1.1.2025	Project leader at DLR Institute of Vehicle Concepts
2023 - 2024	Acting director of DLR Institute of System Dynamics and Control
2014 - 2023	Vice director of DLR Institute of System Dynamics and Control
2007 - 2014	Senior scientist at DLR Oberpfaffenhofen
1984 - 2007	Researcher at DLR Oberpfaffenhofen

since 2024	Board member for Technology at the International Modelica Association
since 2004	Honorary professor at Technical University of Munich
2000 - 2024	Chair of the International Modelica Association
since 1997	Lecturer at Technical University of Munich (course description 2025)

1994	Dissertation (Dr.-Ing.) at Ruhruniversität Bochum (summa cum laude)
1984	Degree in mechanical engineering (Dipl.-Ing.) at Technical University of Munich

Development of the Web-Apps Modiator (Modelica Instant Simulation) and Modicalc (Modelica Instant Calculator) together with Hilding Elmqvist.
24 dissertations supervised and/or reviewed.
About 170 publications (elib DLR, google scholar profile)
Co-organiser (program/editoral board) of 15 International Modelica Conferences.
Local organizer of the Modelica Conferences in 2002 in Oberpfaffenhofen and in 2012 in Munich.
Co-organizer of ITEA projects EUROSYSLIB, MODELISAR, MODRIO, EMPHYSIS, OpenSCALING
(total budget of these projects: 85 Mill. €).
Project leader of the Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) for Model Exchange standard in 2008-2012
(FMI is supported by > 240 tools)
Project leader of the Modelica Association Project "Modelica Language" in 2000 - 2016
(Modelica is supported by > 10 tools).
Project leader for the development of the Modelica Standard Library in 2000 - 2012.