Prof. Dr. Barbara Paech
| Room | INF 205 2/206 | |
| Phone | +49 (0) 6221 / 54 - 14362 | |
| Fax | +49 (0) 6221 / 54 - 14361 | |
| paech (at) informatik.uni-heidelberg.de | ||
| Office hours | by appointment |
Barbara Paech holds the chair„Software Engineering“ at Heidelberg University, Germany. Her teaching and research focuses on methods and processes to ensure quality of software with adequate effort. Since many years, she is particularly active in the area of requirements and rational engineering focusing on the humans involved in software engineering. Based on her experiences as department head at the Fraunhofer Institute Experimental Software Engineering her research is often empirical and in close cooperation with industry. She has headed several industrial, national and international research and transfer projects and has served several functions (including invited talks, program co-chair, steering committee member) at well-knownrequirements-engineering events such as RE or REFSQ. She is founding member of the International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB) and the initiative RECARES (RE for social good) where researchers assist volunteer organizations with digitization projects for free.
In 2025 she received the award for her lifetime achievements in Requirements Engineering from the European Requirements Engineering conference REFSQ.
She was member of the Computer Science review board of the German National Research Funding Society (DFG). She was spokeswoman of the section “Software Engineering” in the German computer science society and has headed the advisory board of study affairs of the representation of German Computer Science study programs “Fakultätentag Informatik”.
She holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and a Habilitation in Computer Science from the Technical Universität München.
