He heads the Correct Systems Design (CSD) group whose research is focused on programming language theory.
Their research goal is methods for the systematic development of correct software for parallel and distributed systems under real-time constraints.
He authored a number of scientific books and served as editor-in-chief of the journal Acta Informatica and as chairman of the IFIP Working Group 2.2 on Formal Description of Programming Concepts.
Olderog comes from Bredenbek in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany, and studied computer science, mathematics and logic at the University of Kiel, where he received his doctorate in 1981 supervised by Hans Langmaack on Hoare-style characterization systems for ALGOL-like programming languages.
From 1995 to 2005, Olderog served as chairman of the IFIP Working Group 2.2 on Formal Description of Programming Concepts.