Professional Highlights
- 2024: Received my 3rd ICSE Distinguished Reviewer Award (after ICSE 2017 and 2021).
- 2023: Received my 2nd ESEC/FSE Distinguished Reviewer Award (after ESEC/FSE 2022).
- 2021: Received my 2nd ICSE Distinguished Reviewer Award (after ICSE 2017).
- 2019: Chair of the steering committee of the IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)
- 2017: Elevated to IEEE Senior Member
- 2017: General chair of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2017), Klagenfurt, Austria.
- 2015: Appointed permanent full professor of software engineering at the Department for Informatics Systems, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
- 2014: Winner of the ICSME 2014 Best Paper Award, together with Daniele Romano and Steven Raemaekers for our work on “Refactoring Fat Interfaces Using a Genetic Algorithm” (picture).
- 2014: Assigned head of the Department for Informatics Systems at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
- 2014, 2015: Program co-chair of the Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2014, MSR 2015)
- 2013: Winner of the ICSM 2013 Most Influential Paper (MIP) Award, together with Michael Fischer and Harald C. Gall for our work on the release history database
- 2013: Winner of the ICSE 2013 Distinguished Paper Award, together with Felienne Hermans, Ben Sedee, and Arie van Deursen for our work on data clone detection in spreadsheets
- 2013: Inaugural lecture at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, covering the challenges of a knowledgeable software engineer (see also article in TT and Uni News)
- 2013: Appointed full professor of software engineering at the Department for Informatics Systems, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
- 2012: Winner of an NWO Vidi individual research grant from The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
- 2012: Received tenure from the Delft University of Technology
- 2011: Co-founder, with Felienne Hermans and Arie van Deursen, of Infotron, a Dutch spin-off company specializing in spreadsheet analysis
- 2010, 2011: Program co-chair of the Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2010, WCRE 2011)
- 2008: Appointed assistant professor at the Department of Software Technology, Delft University of Technology
- 2007: Visiting researcher in the Empirical Software Engineering Group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, USA investigating the relationship between developer contribution structure and failure-proneness
- 2005: Appointed senior research associate in the software evolution and architecture lab at University of Zurich
- 2005: PhD (Dr. techn.) from the Vienna University of Technology for the research ArchView - Analyzing Evolutionary Aspects of Complex Software Systems supervised by Harald C. Gall and Mehdi Jazayeri