Career
Nebel holds a Diploma-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Hanover and a Doctor-Ing. degree from the Computer Science Department of the University of Kaiserslautern, where he has worked for Reiner Hartenstein. In 1987 Nebel joined Philips Semiconductors, Hamburg, and worked as software engineer, Computer-aided Design project manager and finally became Computer-aided Design software development manager. In 1993 he was appointed to the professorship Very-large-scale integration design at the department of computer science at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg.
From 1996 to 1998 he served as Dean of his department.
From January 2001 December 2002 Nebel served as vice-president of Oldenburg University. Since June 2005 he has been chairman of the OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology.
Nebel is and has been involved in several international conferences as program chair or a general chairman He is also active in several additional program committees and professional organizations.
His research interest are in methodologies and tools for embedded system design, in particular: object oriented HW/Southwest specification and synthesis as well as design for low power.