about the author

Jens Gustedt completed his studies in mathematics at the University of Bonn and Berlin Technical University. His research at that time covered the intersection between discrete mathematics and efficient computation. Since 1998, he has been working as a senior scientist at the French National Institute for Computer Science and Control (INRIA), first in the LORIA lab, Nancy, and since 2013 in the ICube Laboratory, Strasbourg, where he is a deputy director since 2023.

Throughout his career, most of his scientific research has been accompanied by the development of software, at the beginning mostly in C++ and then later exclusively in C. He serves for AFNOR (the French standards organization) as an expert on the ISO committee JTC1/SC22/WG14 and was co-editor for the C standard document and for the initial phase of C23 (2024). He also has a successful blog that deals with programming in C and related topics: https://gustedt.wordpress.com.