About me

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Researcher on Software Engineering at Fraunhofer IESE, Lecturer of Software Architecture at Mannheim University of Applied Sciences

I am a computer scientist who worked in industry for 15 years as a project manager, project leader, and software engineer, with experience in many domains but particularly in mobile telecommunications (Operation Support Systems and Business Support Systems). I began researching context awareness in 2012, and in 2015, I started my PhD on the topic. I completed my PhD in 2022 at the University of Kaiserslautern (Germany). My thesis, titled “Data-driven Context Modeling for the Elicitation of Context-aware Functionalities,” is available for download here.

I have contributed as a reviewer/PC member in journals, conferences, and workshops, including JSS, SQJ, ICSA, REFSQ, RCIS, CIbSE, and CREARE.

I am currently a researcher, senior software architect, and project manager at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) (Germany) and a lecturer of Software Architecture at Mannheim University of Applied Sciences.

News

  • RCIS’25: I am contributing to the Program Committee of RCIS’25.
  • SAGAI’25: I am part of the Organizing Committee of SAGAI’25, the 1st International Workshop on Software Architecture and Generative AI, to be held together with ICSA’25 in Odense (Denmark).
  • ICSA’25: I am contributing to the Program Committee of ICSA’25 (track “Software Architecture in Practice”).
  • InfoDays 2024 Modernes API: In September 2024, I talked in Cologne (Germany) about the potential for using generative AI to implement generic APIs. The slides can be found here.

Research interests

  • Empirical software engineering
  • Context awareness
  • Data-driven context modeling
  • Generative AI in software architecture
  • Interoperability
  • Privacy-enhancing technologies