!!Manfred Droste
!Short laudatio by Hermann Maurer
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Manfred Droste is one of the leaders of research in dealing with automata-theoretic
problems using methods from algebra and mathematical logic. He has managed to be a founder of a school of followers with distinguished Ph.D. students such as Kuske, Meinecke, Fichtner, Mathissen, Quaas, Kirsten and others.
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He is founder of the high-quality conference series "Weighted Automata: Theory and Aplications" and was involved in over a dozen projects with institutions all over Europe.
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Manfred Droste's guest professorships and invited research stays include two guest professorships
at Universite Paris 6 and 7 (each 1 month) and research stays at Oxford University (3 months), Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (4 months), Hebrew University (2 months, Minerva-prize), Vancouver University, Wesleyan University, Bowling Green State University (each 1 month), University at Bern and ETH Zürich (2 weeks). Member of the "International PhD School in Formal Languages and Applications", Tarragona, Spain (2003-2007). Invited lecture series at I.-Kant University Kaliningrad in 2009, 2010, 2011.
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He has chaired over 20 major conferences, and organized six Dagstuhl meetings,
and indication of his reputation as top researcher. He has edited numerours
books and is editor or co-editor of a nubmer of journals.

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