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…

Massively parallel processor architectures are a special form of highly scalable parallel computing units with local memory. The Grid-of-Processing-Cell (GPC) architecture was introduced by Prof Rainer Dömer (University of California Irvine) in 2022 on the basis of abstract processor cells. This architecture was initially analysed by him on the basis of abstract simulations of the hardware and software with regard to scalability and performance…

Analysing the impact of changes with Model-Based Systems Engineering – Dr. Dominik Wiechel shows how it is done in his dissertation! During his time our “Product Creation” workgroup, Dr. Dominik Wiechel developed a methodology for ‘model-based effect chain analysis for the evaluation of technical changes’. He performed his research in the BMBF project ImPaKT and in direct collaboration with automotive OEMs. Congratulations on the successful…

Our workgroup "Product Creation" welcomes its new research associate Julius Goldstein. Julius is part of the DFG Priority Programme 2443 "Hybrid Decision Support in Product Creation" and is researching insights into how hybrid decision support can improve the performance of product creation. Julius is very keen on sport in his spare time. He is particularly enthusiastic about football, which he played actively for a long time. As a hunter,…

Our researchers are unique. Here they introduce themselves and show their very personal side behind the scientific work. Sarah Pinno: "During my Bachelor's and Master's degree in International Business Studies at Paderborn University, I was drawn to San Diego State University, USA, to gain experience abroad. This time in an international environment not only gave me exciting professional impulses, but also had a lasting impact on my personal…