Prof. Dr. Barbara Paech

Barbara Paech holds the chair „Software Engineering“ at Heidelberg University. Her teaching and research focuses on methods and processes to ensure the quality of software with adequate effort. For many years, she has been particularly active in the areas of requirements, rationale and quality engineering. Based on her experience as department head at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE), her research is often empirical and in close cooperation with industry. She headed several industrial, national, and international research and transfer projects and served in several functions (including speaker of invited talks, program co-chair, steering committee member) at well-known requirements engineering events such as RE or REFSQ. She has been spokeswoman of the section “Software Engineering” of the German Informatics Society for 6 years and is a founding member of the International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB).

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