About Me

I am a full professor of Programming and Software Engineering at the University of Regensburg (Bavaria, Germany), a member of the supervisory board of the Lakeside Science & Technology Park GmbH, Austria (since 2016), and a member of the Executive Committee (Präsidium) of the German Informatics Society e.V. (GI). From 2018-2025, I was a PostDoc and team leader at the chair of Software Engineering of Prof. Bernhard Rumpe at RWTH Aachen University, from 2011-2017 a member of the Application Engineering Research Group of Prof. Heinrich C. Mayr at the Faculty of Technical Sciences at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt and a member of the supervisory board of the Carinthian Tech Research AG (CTR, Austria), a research center for intelligent sensors. My Habilitation at RWTH Aachen University (2024) was about model-driven engineering of digital twins with informative and assistive services and my PhD thesis at Universität Klagenfurt (2014) was about Cognitive Modeling for Ambient Assistance. In 2015, I have been appointed as a Junior Fellow of the GI.

My research focuses on engineering complex, long-lasting, software-intensive systems within various application domains in an integrated approach with different disciplines. I have experience in software language engineering, the engineering of digital twins, and the model-driven software engineering of information and assistive systems. Find more details in my recent publications.