EMSE People

The EMSE teaching staff,by over 25 lecturers and their assistants, is composed by international well-recognized researchers and professionals.

EMSE Leaders
Barbara Russo, Center of Applied Software Engineering, Free University of Bozen- Bolzano - Italy
EMSE Coordinator
Barbara Russo

Dr. Barbara Russo is Associate Professor at FUB and director of the Master Course in Computer Science. She has been the local coordinator of the EMMC EMCSE(2007-2012). Formerly, she visited the Max-Planck Institut für Mathematik, Bonn and the University of Liverpool, UK as Marie Curie Fellow. Her last publications include Journal of Empirical Software Engineering, and Journal of Software Systems. Her books include Adopting Open Source Software, A Practical Guide (with Fitzgerald, Kesan, Shaikh and Succi), MIT Press, 2011. She participated in EU projects like NAME FP5, COSPA FP6, CALIBRE FP6. Her research interests are in the field of empirical software engineering and software measurement with focus on Open Source software and agile methods

Dieter Rombach, Research Group for Software Engineering, Universität Kaiserslautern - Germany
Prof. H. Dieter Rombach is chair for Software Engineering at the University of Kaiserslautern and Executive Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering in Kaiserslautern. Previously, He was Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, and also Project Manager at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. His main research topics can be found in the area of “Software Engineering”, especially in methods for developing software with predictable quality, in quantitative methods for measuring and assessing software products and software processes, in languages and methods for developing and using explicit software process models, in process-based software development environments as well as in software reuse.

Michael Mattsson, Software Engineering Research Lab, Blekinge Institute of Technology - Sweden
Michael Mattsson


Samuel Fricker, School of Computing, Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) - Sweden
Samuel Fricker



Christian Wolschke, Universität Kaiserslautern - Germany
Christian Wolschke
Christian Wolschke is a scientific assistant at Universität Kaiserslautern.




EMSE Administrative Coordinator
Chi Nguyen, Center of Applied Software Engineering, Free University of Bozen- Bolzano - Italy
Chi Linh Nguyen
Office hour: Monday - Friday : 13:30 - 15:30


Marlene Mader, Center of Applied Software Engineering, Free University of Bozen- Bolzano - Italy
Marlene Mader
Office hour: Monday - Friday : 10:00 - 12:00