FRAUNHOFER IESE - Key Persons

Prof. Liggesmeyer is the author of numerous scientific articles and popular books, particularly the standard reference work "Software Quality" (2002, 2nd edition 2009). He also participates regularly in many national and international program committees. He was or is co-editor of various professional journals, including "Informatik-Spektrum", "Informatik Forschung & Entwicklung" (both Springer-Verlag), "information technology" (Oldenbourg-Verlag), and "Lecture Notes in Informatics" (GI). Prof. Liggesmeyer is a member of the advisory board of the BMBF program "Future of Value Creation - Research on Production, Services and Work", of the expert advisory board of the quality seal "Software made in Germany", and of the competence network "Digitalization in Agriculture" of the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL). As a member of the platform "Security, Protection and Trust for the Society and the Economy" of the German Federal Ministry of the Interior as well as a member of the platform "Digitization in Education and Science" of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, he has collaborated on contributions to the German National IT Summit, resp. the Digital Summit. Prof. Liggesmeyer has been advising many leading companies in matters of technology issues. He is a member of the Center for Digital Commercial Vehicle Technology (ZNT) and of the university priority areas "Construction Site of the Future" and "Region and City" at TU Kaiserslautern. His research interests are safety and dependability analysis techniques as well as comprehensive security and safety analysis processes for Digital Ecosystems, primarily in the application fields of digital commercial vehicle technology, Industry 4.0, medicine, and "Smart Rural Areas".

Prof. Axel Müller-Groeling

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Member of the Executive Board

Prof. Dr. Adam Porter

Prof. Dr. Frank Bomarius

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Deputy Director
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Department Head at the Newly Founded Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering

Prof. Dr. H. Dieter Rombach

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Founding Director & Executive Consultant

Prof. Dr. Jörg Dörr

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Chairman at TU Kaiserslautern

Jörg Dörr holds the "Digital Farming" chair at TU Kaiserslautern. Furthermore, he has been a member of the extended institute management of Fraunhofer IESE in Kaiserslautern since 2020. In this position, he is responsible for the institute's research programs and has been leading the research program "Smart Farming" at the institute since 2020. His work at TUK as well as at Fraunhofer IESE focuses on software and systems engineering, especially for Digital Farming applications. Jörg Dörr was Co-Head Business Development from 2018 to 2020. From 2010-2019, he was manager of the "Information Systems" division and from 2005-2010 head of the "Requirements and Usability Engineering" department. He received his PhD in 2010 with a dissertation on non-functional aspects in requirements specifications. He studied Computer Science with a minor in Electrical Engineering at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. Since 2002, he has been working at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE. Jörg Dörr has extensive knowledge in the field of software and systems engineering, requirements engineering, as well as data usage control. He is active in diverse industries, with a focus on Smart Farming. He is the author of more than 150 academic and industry-oriented publications. Since 2006, he has been active as a university lecturer on topics such as Requirements Engineering and Agile Methods, and since 2021 also on Digital Farming. Jörg Dörr is actively involved in the GI (Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., German Informatics Society), was spokesperson of the expert group "Requirements Engineering" for several years, and is a founding member of the GI Regional Group Kaiserslautern. Furthermore, he is the expert head of the User Group Requirements Engineering of Softwareforen and active in various national and international program committees.