Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Christian Facchi

Offices and committees

- Since 2024 Academic Director of the Doctoral School at THI

- 2021/22 Member of the Commission for the Evaluation of the Right to Award Doctorates at HAW in Hesse

- Since 2020 Member of the Scientific Commission of the German Council of Science and Humanities (www.wissenschaftsrat.de)

- Founding member of the steering committee of the BayWISS Network “Mobility and Transport” since 2016, member of the board of directors since 2020

- Since 2015 Founding member of VDI/VDE-GMA FA 7.25 “Testing in Industry 4.0”

- 2013 - 2023 Head of the Graduate Center of the THI

- Member of the Research Council since 2013

- Since 2011 Member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, later Faculty of Computer Science

- 2011 - 2020 Scientific Director of the Center for Applied Research

- Since 2011 Member of the examination board of the cooperative research master's program

- 2010 - 2013 Deputy Head of Research Construction CARISSMA 

Currently supervised Ph.D.s:

V2X Priority Cooperative Maneuver Coordination for Connected and Automated Vehicles; Daniel Maksimovski; als Erstbetreuer an der THI

VRU Safety Protection with V2X Communication; Silas Lobo; als Erstbetreuer an der THI

Chidvilas  Karpenahalli Ramakrishna; Uncertainty-Aware Criticality in Reinforcement Learning: Enhancing Robustness, Safety and Trust in Autonomous Driving; Erstbetreuer an der THI

Laur Dietl; Enhancing Reinforcement Learning via Neurosymbolic AI in the Context of Vulnerable Road User Trajectory Prediction; Erstbetreuer an der THI

Supervised Ph.D. 

Performance Improvements Using Dynamic Performance Stubs; Peter Trapp; als Zweitbetreuer; Erstbetreuer: Francois Siewe (De Montfort University, UK, 8/2011)

Performance Improvements Using Dynamic Performance Stubs; Peter Trapp; als Zweitbetreuer; Erstbetreuer: Francois Siewe (De Montfort University, UK, 8/2011)

A Framework for Specifying Business Rules Based on Logic with a Syntax Close to Natural Language; Christian Roettenbacher; als Zweitbetreuer; Erstbetreuer: Francois Siewe (De Montfort University, UK) (12/2017)

Methodology for Testing RFID-Applications; Andreas Hübner; als Zweitbetreuer; Erstbetreuer: Helge Janicke. (De Montfort University, UK) (11/2018)

Performance Testing Methodology for Car2X Systems based on IEEE 802.11p; Raphael Riebl als Zweitbetreuer; Erstbetreuer: Ali Albayatti. (De Montfort University, UK) (02/2021)

Enabling Teleoperated Driving in Everday Traffic Scenarios; Stefan Neumeie; als Zweitbetreuer; Erstbetreuer Jörg Ott (TU München) (06/2023)

Multimodal Motion Vehicle Prediction and Planning for Automated Driving; Alberto Flores Fernández; als Zweitbetreuer mit Michael Botsch; als Erstbetreuer Andrés García Higuera; Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), Spanien (07/2023)