The pilot study “Community of Practice” was continued with a second digital workshop as part of the KLUG project. This time, the focus was on the exchange of digital strategies. During the workshop, the core competencies of the participating companies were identified and possible future market developments were discussed. A look back at exciting discussions, and exciting exchanges of experiences with strong Impulses on new future-proof strategies…
Our "Philosophy and Ethics of Scientific and Technological Cultures" workgroup is pleased to welcome Anastasia Margariti-Börgel to the team!
Anastasia works with a focus on food cultures, foodways and nutrition as performed identity, with further specialisations in environmental anthropology and the points of contact between these fields. Her master's thesis was dedicated to the impact of climatic changes and disasters on the culinary heritage…
Our research associate Maxim Weizel from the "System and Circuit Technology" workgroup attended the 32nd IEEE ICECS 2025 in Marrakesh from 17-19 November 2025. The leading IEEE conference for electronics and circuit design focussed on energy-efficient systems, smart automotive electronics as well as neuromorphic and in-memory computing architectures.
His paper "High-Voltage (5-Vpp) Driver Monolithically Integrated with Thermally Tunable Optical…
Sustainability has long since become a decisive factor for the success of industrial value creation. Companies are faced with the challenge of harmonising ecological responsibility, economic efficiency and technological innovation in the circular economy. A large part of the subsequent environmental impact of a product is already determined in the early development phase - this is where it is decided how sustainable a product actually is over its…
There are many approaches to designing sustainable products. It is not easy to determine which one is the right one during product planning. This is where the it's OWL project "Sustainable Lifecycle Engineering" (SLE) comes in. It supports developers and product managers in taking sustainability aspects into account at an early stage of engineering.
As part of SLE, members of our "Advanced Systems Engineering" workgroup develop methods based on…
How can sustainability and digitalisation lead to corporate success? This is the focus of the "Strategic Management of Dual Transformation" (DualStrat) project of our "Behavioural Economic Engineering and Responsible Management" workgroup. Whether materials, working conditions or recycling: value chains have great potential for companies to become more sustainable. Due to the complexity of value chains, management is required.
The project team…
Marcel Niemeyer is a new research associate in our "Product Creation" workgroup.
In the KLUG project, Marcel is working on supporting companies in implementing digital business models. Specifically, he deals with data that is recorded in a machine and how this can be utilised for digital business models.
He likes to spend his free time swimming, going to concerts and doing crossfit regularly.
Welcome, Marcel!
From 18 to 21 November, Dr. Kevin Malena, post-doc and research assistant in our "Control Engineering and Mechatronics" workgroup, will be attending the "IEEE ITSC 2025 - The IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)" on the Gold Coast in Australia. There he will present his research paper entitled "ML-based Prediction Framework for varying Traffic Signal Control Strategies and its GLOSA-application".
The paper…
We encounter software almost everywhere in our everyday lives: we open our emails on our smartphones, make contactless payments when shopping or book a flight for our next holiday.
The development of secure software is therefore of great importance. But how can we be sure that the software works securely? Static programme analysis can be used to find out and also uncover security vulnerabilities. This can also help to prevent cyberattacks that…
The EXIST research transfer project AutoAquaControl was launched on 1 October 2025 in our "System and Circuit Technology" workgroup headed by Prof Christoph Scheytt.
The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy is sponsoring the project to the tune of more than €800,000 until spring 2027. The aim of the project is to develop the wireless energy-autonomous water leakage sensor system AutoAquaControl, consisting of a patented sensor, a…
Fabian Schiebel joined our Secure Software Engineering group on 3 November.
Fabian's current research focusses on "Precise and scalable static data-flow analysis" for detecting security vulnerabilities in C and C++ applications. In the near future, transpiling legacy C code will also be a central part of his work.
In his free time, he enjoys going to the gym, playing the piano or gaming.
Welcome, Fabian!
Kadiray Karakaya successfully completed his doctorate on the topic of "Scalable Data-Flow Analysis through Sparsification and Precise Call Graphs" with Prof Dr Eric Bodden.
Static data-flow analysis aims to ensure bug-free, secure, and quality software by accounting for all possible executions of a target programme. Due to scalability constraints, this often entails sound over-approximations that compromise analysis precision. On the other hand,…
Our workgroup "Secure Software Engineering" is happy to welcome its new research associate Rose Sunil to its team!
Rose works in the SOSA research project under Prof. Dr. Eric Bodden and her research focuses on self-optimising static analysis and investigations and how static analysis tools can automatically adapt and improve their performance.
Outside of work, Rose enjoys travelling the world and reading books. She also lives creatively -…
Sriteja Kummita is a new member of our Secure Software Engineering workgroup!
Sriteja's research focus is in the field of security testing using dynamic analysis, fuzzing. In particular in the visualisation and understanding of fuzzing.He is a professional badminton player and currently plays for the club BC Phönix Hövelhof. He likes to spend his free time cooking and travelling.
Welcome, Sriteja!
Our "Software Resilience" workgroup is growing!
Kamel Abdelsalam has received a DAAD scholarship and will work as a scholarship holder in our "Software Resilience" workgroup led by Junior Professor Dr Mohamed Soliman. In his research, he is investigating how Large Language Models (LLMs) can be used to recognise and extract Architectural Knowledge (AK) in software systems. The aim is to overcome the phenomenon of AK vaporisation. The long-term…
