For almost two months, Franz Rothlauf was a Visiting Professor at the UCD Natural Computing Research & Applications Group in Dublin as part of the celebration of NCRA's 20th anniversary. The NCRA group was founded in 2006 by Prof. Anthony Brabazon and Prof. Michael O’Neill, who both kindly hosted Franz during his stay.
Franz gave several talks on evolutionary computation and machine learning and enjoyed the intense discussions at UCD, particularly with Michael O’Neill and the members of his group.
It was an inspiring and pleasant stay at the Smurfit Business School, and Franz is very grateful for the invitation to Dublin.
We are proud to announce that Clarissa Krämer has been accepted as a Junior Fellow in the Gutenberg Academy Fellows Program at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
The Gutenberg Academy Fellows Program brings together outstanding doctoral researchers and connects them with distinguished JGU scholars as well as leading figures from business, politics, and culture. Through financial support and a tailored sponsorship and mentoring model, Junior Fellows receive targeted guidance and encouragement on their academic career paths.
We congratulate Clarissa on this achievement and wish her an inspiring and successful time in the program.
Our team warmly congratulates Dr. Dominik Sobania on his new position as junior professor (W1 t.t. W3) for ‘Generative Artificial Intelligence in Software Engineering’ at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Dominik has held the new professorship at the University of Duisburg-Essen since 1 January 2025.
Dr. Sobania worked as a research assistant and postdoctoral lecturer at our chair from April 2017 to December 2025. During this time, he had a significant impact on and further developed the chair's research and teaching activities.
He defended his dissertation in December 2022 with outstanding success. Since then, he has made an extremely valuable contribution to research and teaching.
His work is characterised in particular by high scientific quality, methodological depth and a strong application orientation. In addition, he has been continuously involved in supervising students, theses and the further development of courses.
With his appointment, the University of Duisburg-Essen gains a scientist with outstanding academic achievements and a forward-looking research profile in the field of generative AI and software engineering.
We would like to express our sincere thanks for the many years of successful cooperation and wish Dominik every success, joy and all the best in his new academic role.
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