Lutz Schröder is a Professor and head of the Chair of Computer Science 8 (Theoretical Computer Science) at the Department of Computer Science, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). He is actively involved in research and leadership within formal methods and logic in computer science. His research interests include Formal Methods , Logic in Computer Science , Knowledge Representation , and Coalgebraic Logic . His work emphasizes theoretical foundations of programming semantics, modal and fixpoint logics, and automated reasoning, often employing category-theoretic and coalgebraic frameworks. His recent publications span top conferences such as LICS, POPL, CSL, and CONCUR, focusing on graded semantics, behavioral metrics, nominal automata, and generic model checking. These works exhibit a strong trend toward unifying logical systems and developing modular, coalgebraic tools for verification. EATCS Best Paper Award at ETAPS 2006 Best Theory Paper at FM 2019 He advises several researchers, including Paul Wild, Jonas Forster, and Daniel Hausmann, many of whom are frequent co-authors. He leads DFG projects such as CoMoC (Coalgebraic Model Checking), SpeQT (Spectra of Behavioural Distances), and is a principal investigator in the DFG Research Training Group 2475 on Cybercrime and Forensic Computing. He has been a PC member or co-chair for major conferences including LICS, IJCAI, FoSSaCS, and STACS, and co-chaired IFIP WG 1.3 from 2016–2022. He is also involved in the development of reasoning tools like COOL and COOL-MC.







