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Manuel Wimmer is a leading researcher at the intersection of model-driven engineering, cyber-physical systems, and smart manufacturing. His work fundamentally addresses how complex systems—from robotic swarms to Industry 4.0 factories—can be designed, validated, and adapted at runtime. Wimmer pioneered the use of iterative plan refinement for reactive smart manufacturing, enabling production systems to dynamically adjust to changes in products, processes, and machinery. He also introduced RoboMAX, a widely-used repository of robotic mission adaptation exemplars that has become a benchmark for self-adaptation research. His contributions to digital twin validation are particularly notable: he developed trace alignment techniques to measure the fidelity between physical and digital twins, a critical step for ensuring trustworthy operation. With over 70 citations across his most-cited works, Wimmer’s impact spans foundational concepts like incorporating physical quantities and measurement uncertainty into robot software models, as well as practical tools like GRuM, a flexible runtime monitoring framework for autonomous vehicles. His recent work on leveraging large language models to transform robot programs into low-code interfaces opens new pathways for domain experts to program industrial robots without deep software engineering training.