Moving to Heidelberg University on 1st October
On 1st October 2025, I will start at Heidelberg University as a Professor of Software Engineering. (Most of) my group will transition from University of Bayreuth to Heidelberg University, and at least one new PhD student will join.
I’m really looking forward to meeting new people in Heidelberg, and I already had the chance to talk to some new colleagues today at the farewell event for my predecessor, Barbara Paech. I’m also looking forward to deepening collaborations with my former employer SAP, which is right around the corner, and other companies and organizations in the area.
For those who don’t know (and do care), Heidelberg University is the oldest university in Germany, among the top three universities in the country, and among the top 100 worldwide.
I want to thank the Institute of Computer Science at Heidelberg University for the warm welcome, and the Institute of Computer Science at University of Bayreuth for all the support I got since joining there in December 2023. The decision to move to Heidelberg University was not easy, and I will never forget that it was the University of Bayreuth who believed in me and hired me back from industry to academia. They have a great research and teaching environment in Bayreuth and, as Stefan Leible always says, the nicest university campus in Germany (he’s not wrong).
Thanks to the Institute of Computer Science at University of Bayreuth, in particular Jörg Müller, Daniel Buschek, Heike Leutheuser, Ruben Mayer, Wim Martens, Sebastian Roth, Thomas Rauber, Dominik Henrich, Christian Knauer, Stefan Jablonski, Michael Guthe, and everybody else! Thanks also to my scientific staff Shalini Chakraborty, Brenda Ayuku Chiteri, Moein Mohsenimofidi and my non-scientific staff Monika Glaser and Fabian Greger. Special thanks to Stefan Leible and Nicole Kaiser, and of course everybody else at University of Bayreuth!