A great success for the Institute Industrial IT (inIT): We are pleased to announce that Christoph-Alexander Holst, research group leader of the Image Processing and Pattern Recognition and Sensor and Information Fusion research group headed by Prof. Volker Lohweg, has successfully completed his doctorate. His dissertation on "Designing Possibilistic Information Fusion Systems: Redundancy as Criterion for Fusion Topologies" was awarded "summa cum laude" by the doctoral committee on 26 August 2025.
As part of his research on data and information fusion, Dr.-Ing. Christoph-Alexander Holst developed a new approach to fusion systems using implicit redundancies that arise when evaluating multiple data sets. He also demonstrated methods that are capable of reducing inconsistencies and incompleteness in multisensory systems.
The dissertation was written as part of a collaboration between the Technische Hochschule OWL and the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU). The work was supervised by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Volker Lohweg (inIT, TH OWL) and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Hübner (BTU), as well as additional reviewer Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Oliver Niggemann (Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg).
Prof. Volker Lohweg is delighted with the achievement of his long-standing colleague: "Diverse commitment and persistent work pay off. I am very pleased that Christoph-Alexander Holst has enriched the scientific community in the field of data and information fusion with his research on redundancy-hardened robust fusion systems."
On behalf of the entire inIT team, we congratulate Dr.-Ing. Christoph-Alexander Holst on this outstanding academic achievement and wish him all the best for his future career!