qualitative reasoning. His research interests include modeling and simulation, reasoning technologies, operational research (optimization theory), simulation and agent programming languages. He is the designer and developer of a simulation and agent programming language called AdSiF (Agent driven Simulation Framework). He developed several simulation projects in defense domain. Some of these are land‐based air defense simulations, simulation for C4ISR systems, marine warfare simulation, and simulations for civil sectors. He is a member of the Operational Research Society in Turkey. He received multiple awards from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey.
Jan Hodicky is a modeling and simulation advisor at the NATO Headquarter Supreme Allied Commander Transformation in Norfolk, Virginia. He earned his PhD in informatics and computer science with a special focus on modeling and simulation of autonomous systems. He is an author of around 100 papers in international journals/conferences, co‐author of the patent of Virtual Reality in Command Control Systems with 23 years of service in the Czech Armed Forces. His research efforts focus on applied modeling and simulation to military problem domains. He has been the head of the Aviation Technology Department at the University of Defense in Brno in 2019 and a member of strategic management in Defense Department at the Centre for the Security and Military Strategic Studies University of Defense in 2018. From 2013 to 2017 he was chairing the Doctrine Education & Training Branch at the NATO Modelling and simulation Centre of Excellence in Rome.
Reiner K. Huber is emeritus professor at the German Armed Forces University Munich (UniBwM) where he held the chair of Operations Research and Systems Analysis (with emphasis on defense and security issues) from 1975 to 2000. Prior to this appointment he was head of the systems studies division of IABG which he had joined in 1964 as an analyst after three years of military service in the German Air Force. IABG was the German Defense Ministry’s modeling and analysis institution founded in the early 1960s to support weapon systems and operations assessment, and defense planning. His research at UniBwM included, among others, exploratory analysis for improving military stability in Central Europe between NATO and WP and, after the disintegration of the WP and USSR, the stability of multipolar defense arrangements on a regional and global scale. His recent work is focused on command and control as an invited expert to a NATO project. Dr. Huber received his academic education at the Technical University Munich (TUM) and, as a Fulbright scholar, at the University of Texas in Austin. He was awarded a doctorate (equivalent to a PhD) in 1970 from TUM in aerospace engineering.
Leonie Johannsmann is a lieutenant in the German Air Force. With a successfully completed officer training she started her study of industrial engineering at the Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg in 2013. She wrote her master’s thesis, during a trimester abroad, at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, USA. In her master’s thesis she optimized the spare parts inventory for a military deployment with methods of operations research. Her work was awarded with two academic prizes: the DWT Student Prize of the German Society for Defense Technology and a Best Paper Award of the 12th NATO OR&A Conference 2018. In 2017, she started her pilot training for cargo airplanes for the air force.
Ambrose Kam is a fellow in Cyber at Lockheed Martin and chief engineer in Cyber Operations Analysis, Rotary & Mission Systems (RMS) Cyber Innovations in Moorestown, New Jersey. He has MSc degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Cornell University, and a BSc from the University at Buffalo. He is a specialist in cyber risk assessment and agile methods and pioneered the application of modeling and simulation techniques to cybersecurity. He collaborated with MIT (School of Engineering), Georgia Tech, Air Force Academy and West Point to develop Cyber Risk Assessment methodology. In 2017, he won the Asian American Engineer of the Year (AAEOY) award for his technical contributions and leadership.
William J. Lademan is a professional wargamer with extensive experience in the field that includes more than four decades of practice, research, and participation. Graduating from the United States Naval Academy, he received a commission in the United States Marine Corps. During his service, he held various command and staff positions, which included high‐level planning positions. He also attended the Naval War College and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. After service, he obtained a PhD in chemistry from Lehigh University and spent over a decade in academia and the chemical industry before joining a consulting firm as a wargame designer. Currently, he is the technical director of the Wargaming Division, Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, charged with the execution of the Wargaming Program in support of examining service concepts, combat development, and operational plans. He is also involved in the planning for the construction of the Marine Corps’ purpose‐built wargaming center and the development of the Next Generation Wargame it will facilitate. In support of realizing the Next Generation Wargame concept, he has formulated two principles of action allowing for the representation of warfighting functions and the manipulation of wargame information and is conducting research into the metrics necessary to define the efficient application of these principles in wargame design and execution.
Sönke Marahrens is the program director of the German Institute for Defense and Strategic Studies, a cooperation between the Joint Forces Staff College and the University of the Armed Forces Hamburg. He is Colonel (GS) of the German Air Force and holds an MSc in computer science from the University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich and a master of public administration from the Royal Canadian College in Kingston. His research interests include artificial intelligence, the Prussian Wargame as well Military Command & Control and leadership for the 21st Century including M&S decision support. He is an expert on the application of NATO Modelling and Simulation, OR and NATO and National CD&E. He has received multiple awards, including the Clausewitz Medal as well as the Artur K Cebrowski Award.
Sandra Matuszewski is a general staff officer in the German Air Force. Her job specialization in the air force is information technology. She studied social sciences and administrative law from 2005 to 2009 in Munich, Germany, at the University of the Federal Armed Forces. Between October 2009 and March 2010, she took part in the ISAF Mission in Afghanistan. From 2015 to 2017 she completed her master’s in military leadership and international security during the General Staff Officers Course at the Leadership Academy of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg, where she studied wargaming and created the board game “Enhanced Luna Warrior.” She works at the Air Operations Center in Kalkar, Germany, where she is responsible for the CIS mission planning for the German Air Force.
Ole Martin Mevassvik is a principal scientist at FFI and project manager for M&S research. He received a siv. ing. degree in cybernetics from the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway in 1995. His main research interests are systems architecture and simulation interoperability with the focus on Command and Control to Simulation (C2SIM) interoperability. Ole Martin has participated in several national research projects and international activities on defense modeling and simulation. He has contributed to more than 80 peer‐reviewed conference and journal papers and scientific reports. Ole Martin Mevassvik has also acted as a consultant for the Norwegian Armed Forces in several simulator acquisition projects.
Daniel Müllenstedt studied mechanical engineering from 2011 to 2015 at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, Germany. He received the DWT‐Student Prize of the German Society for Defense Technology for his Master Thesis, and the Böttcher Prize for the Best Student of the Year 2016. In 2016 he became a maintenance officer at the Tactical Air Wing 71 “Richthofen” in Wittmund, Germany. After his training as a systems engineer for Eurofighter at AIRBUS Defence and Space in Manching, Germany in 2018, he was deployed as maintenance operations officer in the technical group of the Tactical Air Wing 71 “Richthofen.” Since 2019 he is a weapon system officer for the Eurofighter at the Air Force Forces Command in Cologne, Germany.
Andrzej Najgebauer is professor of computer and information systems and the chair of the Modelling and Simulation for Decision Support in Conflict and Crisis Situations Team at the Military University of Technology in Warsaw, Poland. He is also Polish member of STO/NATO
