Gunnar Johannsen

Background

Johannsen, Gunnar was born on December 22, 1940 in Hamburg, Germany. Son of Wilhelm Gustav Friedrich and Erika Hedwig (Ranft) Johannsen.

Education

Degree in Music & Sound Engineering, University College Music, Berlin, Germany, 1963. Diploma in Engineering, Technische University, Berlin, 1967. Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering, Technische University, Berlin, 1971.

Habilitation, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule, Aachen, Federal Republic Germany, 1980. Degree In Conducting, Hamburg, Vienna, Kassel, 2001.

Career

Born and raised in Hamburg, Johannsen received his Diploma-Ing. in communication and information engineering from the Technical University of Berlin in 1967, where in 1971 he also received his Doctor-Ing. in flight guidance and manual control. In 1971 Johannsen started his academic career as division head at the Research Institute for Human Engineering (FGAN-FAT) in Wachtberg, south of Bonn. After his habilitation in 1980 he became privatdozent in the field of human-machine systems at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen University.

In 1982 he moved to the University of Kassel, where he was appointed Professor of Systems Engineering and Human-Machine Systems until his retirement in 2006.

Over the years Johannsen was visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1977−78, at the Kyoto Institute of Technology in 1995 and 2004. At the Vienna University of Technology in 1999.

And at the University of British Columbia in 2004. Johannsen was fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control, where in 1981 he founded the working Group on Manitoba-Machine Systems, and served in different positions over the years.

In 2001 he was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Achievements

• Gunnar Johannsen has been listed as a noteworthy Engineering professional, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Mensch-Maschine-Systeme (Springer-Lehrbuch) (German Edition)

    (Das Zusammenwirken von Mensch und Maschine, also Arbeitst...)

  • Integrated Systems Engineering (IFAC Postprint Volume)

    (A key solution for present and future technological probl...)

Membership

Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Member International Federation Automatic Control (vice-chairman committee on system engineering 1984-1990, chairman committee on system engineering 1990-1993, chairman Working Group on Man-Machine Systems 1981-1990, chairman coordinator committee on system engineering and management 1993-1996), Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Verein Deutscher Ingenieure/Verband Deutscher Elektrotechniker-Gesellschaft Mess- und Automatisierungstechnik, Association for Computing Machinery, Verband Deutscher Elektrotechniker-ITG Informationstechnische Gesellschaft, Gesellschaft für Informatik, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft-und Raumfahrt, Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft, Russian Academy Transport St. Petersburg (academician).mem. The International Federation of Automatic Control(vice chairman 1984-1990, chairman 1993-1996), International Computer Music Association.

Interests

• Music, hiking, art, travel.

Connections

Married Gisela Hildegard Hentze, April 15, 1966. Children: Inke, Gesine.

Father:

Wilhelm Gustav Friedrich Johannsen

Mother:

Erika Hedwig (Ranft) Johannsen

Spouse:

Gisela Hildegard Hentze

child:

Gesine Johannsen

child:

Inke Johannsen