Peter Liggesmeyer

Peter Liggesmeyer giving a lecture at CeBIT 2016

Peter Liggesmeyer (* 1963 in Paderborn ) is a German computer scientist . Since 2015 he has been the managing director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) in Kaiserslautern and since 2004 has held the chair “Software Engineering: Dependability” at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern . From 2014 to 2017 he headed the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI eV) as its president. He is the founder of the Fraunhofer Embedded Systems Alliance, of which he was spokesman from 2010 to 2013. From 2004 to 2014 Liggesmeyer was the scientific director of Fraunhofer IESE. He is the author of numerous specialist articles and widespread specialist books, in particular the standard work "Software Quality" (2002, 2nd edition. 2009).

Peter Liggesmeyer is an expert in the field of software testing and software verification.

Vita

• 1988 Diploma in electrical engineering (focus on data technology) at the University of Paderborn
• 1988–1992 research assistant at the chair for software technology at the Ruhr University in Bochum
• 1992 PhD at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the Ruhr University Bochum
• 1993–2000 project manager in the central research and development department of Siemens AG , Munich
• 2000 habilitation
• June 2000–2004 Full Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Potsdam and Head of the “Software Technology” department at the Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Technology (HPI), Potsdam
• Since 2004 head of the working group Software Engineering: Dependability at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern
• 2004–2014 Scientific Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering
• 2014–2017 President of the Society for Computer Science (GI)
• Since 2015 Managing Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering

Scientific awards

• 1993 Software Engineering Prize from the Ernst Denert Foundation / Society for Computer Science eV
• Gebr. Eickhoff Prize 1993 from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the Ruhr University in Bochum

Activities in the society for informatics

• Spokesman for the "Software Technology and Information Systems" department
• Spokesman for the "Software Technology" group
• Member of the management committee of the specialist group "Test, Analysis and Verification of Software"

Publications

• Module test and module verification - State of the Art. BI Wissenschaftsverlag, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-411-14361-4 .
• with H. Balzert: Systematic testing with tensor. BI Wissenschaftsverlag, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-411-16041-1 .
• Knowledge-based quality assistance for the construction of test strategies for software components. BI Wissenschaftsverlag, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-411-16491-3 .
• Quality assurance of software-intensive technical systems. Spektrum-Verlag, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8274-1085-1 .
• Software quality. Spektrum-Verlag, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8274-1118-1 .
• with D. Rombach (Ed.): Software Engineering Embedded Systems. Elsevier Spektrum-Verlag, Heidelberg / Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8274-1533-0 .
• Software in safety-critical systems. In: Tilo Pfeifer, Robert Schmitt (Hrsg.): Masing handbook quality management . 6th, revised edition. Carl Hanser Fachbuchverlag, Munich / Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-446-43431-8 , Chapter 39, pp. 902-917.
• as well as more than 50 specialist articles ( list)

Web links

• Website of the working group "Software Engineering: Dependability"
• Website of the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE)