Judith Michael

Judith Michael is full professor of programming and software engineering at University of Regensburg, Germany, a member of the supervisory board of the Lakeside Science & Technology Park GmbH, Austria, and a member of the executive committee of the German Informatics Society (GI). From 2018-2025, she was a PostDoc and team leader in the Software Engineering group at RWTH Aachen University and served at RWTH Aachen as the deputy coordinator in the workstream “Conceptual Foundations of Digital Shadows” in the German Cluster of Excellence “Internet of Production”. Her Habilitation at RWTH Aachen University (2024) was about model-driven engineering of digital twins with informative and assistive services. In 2015, she was appointed as a GI Junior Fellow and currently, she is the spokesperson of the German modeling community (GI-QFAM). Her Ph.D. thesis (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria, 2014) was about Cognitive Modeling for Ambient Assistance. Her research focuses on engineering complex, long-lasting, software-intensive systems in an integrated approach with different disciplines. She has experience in software language engineering, the engineering of digital twins, and model-driven software engineering.