Gunter Bolch

Dr. Gunter Bolch was a Professor and former head of the Performance Modelling and Process Control research group at the Department of Computer Science 4 (Distributed Systems and Operating Systems) of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. He held positions such as Akademischer Direktor and was a Visiting Professor at institutions like the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. His work focused on performance modeling using queueing networks, stochastic Petri nets, and Markov chains, with applications in telecommunications and operating systems.

Education: Studied Telecommunication at Technical Universities of Karlsruhe and Berlin (Ph.D. 1973). Retired in 2006 but remained active in research and academia until his passing in 2008.

Research interests spanned performance evaluation, process control, and analytical methods for computer systems. He authored/co-authored 7 books and over 130 publications, including influential works on queueing networks and MOSEL modeling language.

Key contributions include the PEPSY and MOSEL tools for performance analysis. Collaborated internationally on conferences like ASMTA and ESS. His work integrated theoretical models with practical applications, impacting both academia and industry.