Chair

Lucas Davi has been researching and teaching at the University of Duisburg-Essen since December 2016. He is principal Investigator in the Collaborative Research Center CROSSING. He studied IT-Security at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany and received his PhD from TU Darmstadt in computer science in 2015.

His research focus includes aspects of system security and trusted computing, particularly software exploitation techniques and defenses. He received best paper awards at DAC, ACM AsiaCCS, and IEEE Security & Privacy. His PhD thesis on code-reuse attacks and defenses has been awarded with the ACM SIGSAC Dissertation Award 2016.

Before joining the University of Duisburg-Essen, Alexandra Dmitrienko was a professor at the University of Würzburg, where she led the Secure Software Systems research group (2018-2025). Previously she worked at various research institutions in Germany and Switzerland: Ruhr-University Bochum (2008-2011), Fraunhofer Institute for Information Security in Darmstadt (2011-2015), and ETH Zurich (2016-2017). 

She earned her doctorate in 2015 at the Technical University of Darmstadt and received numerous awards for her research, including Intel Doctoral Student Honor Award (2013) and ERCIM STM WG Award (2016). As an alumna of the Software Campus (https://softwarecampus.de/), a leadership development programme for IT talents, she is deeply committed to bridging research excellence and real-world impact. She collaborates with numerous internationally active companies and leading international academic partners to advance cutting-edge research and ensure its effective transfer into practice.

• April 2004: Vocation to the chair of business informatics and software engineering at the University of Duisburg-Essen
• October 2003 - July 2004: Associate Professor at the technical University of Clausthal
• November 1997: Vocation to the chair of business informatics and business communication systems at the University of Essen
• 1997: State doctorate and served as an Assistant professor at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder)
• 1996 - 1997: Held professorship at the business informatics and communication systems at the University of Essen
• 1995 - 1996: Provisional professorship for the chair of business informatics at the University of Münster
• 1992: Graduation at the University of Dortmund
• 1990-1995: Executive and academic council for the institute of business informatics at the University of Münster
• 1985 - 1990: Research Associate at the chair of business informatics at the department of economic science and social science at the University of Dortmund (chair holder: Prof. Dr. Karl Kurbel)

Michael Goedicke studierte Informatik an der Universität Dortmund und schrieb dort seine Promotion 1985 über Spezifikationsprachen für eingebettete Systeme. Anschließend forschte er in den Bereichen Spezifikation von Software-Architekturen und Beschreibung von Softwarekomponenten ebenfalls an der Universität Dortmund. 1993 erfolgte die Habilitation zum Thema Spezifikation von Softwarekomponenten. Seit 1994 ist Michael Goedicke an der Universität-Gesamthochschule Essen (ab 2003 Universität Duisburg-Essen) Professor für Praktische Informatik / Spezifikation von Software-Systemen.

Forschungsinteressen:

• Sichten und beschreiben von Artefakten und Methoden zur Entwicklung von Softwaresystemen
• Architektur von Software-Systemen unter Berücksichtung von Qualitätseigenschaften wie Performanz und Skalierbarkeit
• Technologien und Plattformen für die Entwicklung von Softwaresystemen

Volker Gruhn is leading the Software Engineering, esp. Mobile Applications Group at the paluno - The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology. His research interests are in agile model-driven development, especially in methods for the development of mobile, distributed software systems. He was the general and program chair of the German Software Engineering Conference SE 2006, and is a program co-chair for ICSE 2008.  

In the 1990s, Volker Gruhn worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering (ISST) and was a member of the executive board of a software company of Veba AG. He subsequently became professor for applied computer science at the University of Dortmund, with a research focus on the development of component-based software architectures and e-business applications. From 2002 until 2010 Volker Gruhn was leading the Applied Telematics/e-Business Group at the University of Leipzig. He is founder and chairman of the board of software company adesso AG.

He is author and co-author of about 250 national and international publications.

Prof. Dr. Pedro José Marrón ist seit Oktober 2009 Professor für Networked Embedded Systems / Pervasive Computing an der Universität Duisburg‐Essen, zunächst am Campus Duisburg und seit 2013 am Campus Essen.

Seine Forschungsinteressen umfassen u.a. die Bereiche Sensor Networks, Embedded Systems, Smart Cities und Ubiqiutous / Pervasive Computing.

Prof. Marrón ist Koordinator mehrerer Projekte, gefördert im Rahmenprogramm FP7 der Europäischen Union, und unterstützt als unabhängiger Experte mehrere Experten‐Arbeitsgruppen der EU. Außerdem ist er Gründer des European Center for Ubiquitous Technologies and Smart Cities UBICITEC e.V. sowie des Start‐Up Unternehmens Locoslab.

Andreas Metzger is adjunct professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His research interests include the use of artificial intelligence in software engineering and business process management. He was steering committee vice chair of the European Technology Platform NESSI (The Networked European Software and Services Initiative), deputy general secretary of the Big Data Value Association (BDVA) , and - among other leadership roles in EU projects - technical coordinator of the Big Data Value PPP lighthouse project TransformingTransport.

Klaus Pohl is a full professor for Software Systems Engineering at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He is founding director of paluno – The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology – and director since 2010. From 2005 to 2007, he was the scientific founding director of the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre (lero).

His research interests include adaptive systems, digitization / big data, cloud computing, cyber-physical systems, service orientation, variability management, and requirements engineering.

He is/was coordinator of many research projects and member of scientific and industrial steering committees, including the European Technology Platform NESSI (Networked European Software and Services Initiative), the European BDVA (Big Data Value Association) and the German Innovation Alliance SPES (Software Platform). Klaus Pohl is/was program and general chair of several international and national conferences, including the 29^th Intl. Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2017), 35^th Intl. Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2013), 9^th and 12^th Intl. Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2005/2008), 18^th Intl. Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2006), German GI Software Engineering Conference 2005, Intl. Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2002).

He is (co-)author of more than 250 peer-reviewed publications and six text books. As a consultant, advisor, and expert he supports national and international companies, research associations and programs.

Dr. Gregor Schiele is professor for embedded systems. Since November 2014 he leads the Embedded Systems group at the University Duisburg-Essen. Before that he was working from 2012 to 2014 at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics and the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) as well as at the National University of Ireland, Galway. From 2006 to 2012 he was working at the department of Prof. Dr. Christian Becker at the University Mannheim. He wrote his doctorate in 2007 at the University Stuttgart at the department of Prof. Dr. Kurt Rothermel.

The core of his current research interest consists of adaptive embedded systems as well as the Internet of Things. He has great interest in how embedded systems can be operated with as little maintenance as possible, in a cheap and reliable way over a long operation time of several years to decades by using three-dimensional environmental models and methods of artificial intelligence.

Stefan Schneegaß has been researching and teaching at the University of Duisburg-Essen since May 2017. He studied systems engineering at the University of Duisburg-Essen (2005-2011) and defended his doctoral dissertation at the University of Stuttgart in 2016. In his dissertation, he focused on enriching mobile interaction with garment-based wearable computing devices.

The overarching goal of his research is to help users interacting with computing devices und create easy to understand and easy to use interfaces for them. Thereby, he is researching novel interaction concepts for mobile, wearable, and ubiquitous computing systems. He is particularly interested in virtual and augmented reality, brain-computer interfaces, Internet of Things (IoT), implicit feedback through electrical muscle stimulation, and usable security.

Prof. Vogelsang is strongly connected in the international software engineering community. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the REFSQ Conference, the Editorial Board of the Journal of Software Engineering for Autonomous Systems, and an associated member of the International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB). Since 2018, he has also been a Junior Fellow of the German Informatics Society (GI). For his scientific work, he has been awarded several times, including as "Young Researcher of the Year" (academics/DHV, 2019) and with several Best Paper and Reviewer Awards.

Torben Weis has been Professor for Distributed Systems at the University of Duisburg-Essen since 2006. Since October 2012, he has been Vice Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, responsible for the Department of Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science.

He received his PhD from TU Berlin in 2004 on "Model-driven development of Qos-enabled distributed applications" and led the DFG Emmy-Noether research group "Development Tools for Context-based Systems" at the University of Stuttgart from 07/2005 to 12/2006.

Torben Weis' research interests include cyber-physical systems, cloud computing, security and privacy in distributed systems, and AI-based context recognition.