Prof. Dr. Tom Ritter

Prof. Dr. Tom Ritter has been Deputy Director of the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS since November 2019. Together with Manfred Hauswirth, the computer scientist is responsible for the institute's strategic orientation, key account management and customer acquisition. Since November 2024, he has also held an honorary professorship at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences (HTW) in the Department of Computer Science, Communication and Economics.

Tom Ritter began his career at Fraunhofer FOKUS as a student assistant and has been associated with the institute for over 20 years. Until fall 2019, he headed the SQC – Quality Engineering business unit at Fraunhofer FOKUS with its approximately 80 employees.

His main areas of interest are model-driven software engineering, the development of software tools, software development processes, infrastructures for tool integration and the consideration of quality throughout the entire development and life cycle of a system.

Since 2004, Tom Ritter has been involved with the ModelBus tool integration framework, contributed to its design and lead the ModelBus development team. Tom Ritter also participated in many standardization activities at the Object Management Group (OMG) and is co-author of books on components and services. He regularly provides his expertise in lectures and seminars as well as at conferences and workshops. Furthermore, he is a member of the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors.