Christoph Meinel

Christoph Meinel is a German computer scientist and professor emeritus of Internet technologies. He is one of the two founding presidents of the German University of Digital Science and has been one of the two presidents since its foundation in April 2025. Previously, he was Institute Director and CEO at the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) at the University of Potsdam from 2004 to 2023. Meinel is the author of numerous specialist books on the internet and web technology as well as an editor. He has developed the openHPI learning platform with more than 1 million enrolled learners. In 2019, he was appointed to the New Internet IPv6 Hall of Fame.