Biography:Birgit Penzenstadler

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Short description: German software engineering professor
Birgit Penzenstadler
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Penzenstadler in 2019
Born
September 9, 1981
Erding, Germany
Alma materUniversity of Passau (MSc)
Technical University of Munich (PhD)
Technical University of Munich (Habilitation)
UC Irvine (Postdoc)
Known forThe Karlskrona Manifesto
Safety, Security, Now Sustainability: The Nonfunctional Requirement for the 21st Century[1]
Sustainability in software engineering: A systematic literature review[2]
Requirements: The key to sustainability[3]
TitleAssociate Professor
Scientific career
FieldsSoftware Engineering for Sustainability
InstitutionsChalmers University of Technology
Lappeenranta University of Technology
Doctoral advisorManfred Broy
Other academic advisorsBill Tomlinson
Debra Richardson
Websitebirgit.penzenstadler.de

Birgit Penzenstadler (born September 9, 1981 in Erding, Germany ) is a German associate professor of Software Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology and adjunct docent at Lappeenranta University of Technology.

She is well known for her work on environmental sustainability in software engineering and for being one of the founders of the sustainability design initiative,[4] which seeks to advance the research on sustainability in technical disciplines such as computer science and software engineering.

She holds a PhD in Software Engineering from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Furthermore, she is a 500-RYT yoga teacher with additional certification in breathwork (pranayama), an Embodied Mindfulness Coach, Reiki level II practitioner, and NET (narrative exposure therapy) facilitator.

Work

She has been investigating well-being (www.twinkleflip.com), resilience, and sustainability from a point of view of software engineering during the past ten years, working on a body of knowledge and concepts of how to support sustainability from within RE. Part of these efforts are documented with the Karlskrona Alliance that published a body of work including the Karlskrona Manifesto (see also http://www.sustainabilitydesign.org). Penzenstadler guides meditation and breathwork on Insight Timer. https://insighttimer.com/blove

She gave a TEDx talk in 2022 in Goeteborg about how wellbeing, resilience and sustainability are connected and how to consider them when designing technology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04JkvbF4I9A

Prior to Chalmers University of Technology, Birgit was a professor at California State University, Long Beach. Also she has completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Irvine with Prof. Debra J. Richardson and Prof. Bill Tomlinson.[5] They developed framework called SE4S that supports the infusion of sustainability in the requirements engineering (RE) and quality assurance (QA) stages of software engineering processes.[5]

Penzenstadler coined the term "Software Engineering for Sustainability" in 2013.[6] Also, she was the main organizer of the workshop series “Requirements Engineering for Sustainable Systems” 2012-2021 [7] at the International Requirements Engineering Conferences.[8] She led the Resilience Lab at California State University, Long Beach during 2015- 2019 which focused on research that evaluated the properties of a software system in relation to sustainability.


References

  1. Penzenstadler, Birgit; Raturi, Ankita; Richardson, Debra; Tomlinson, Bill (2014). "Safety, security, now sustainability: The nonfunctional requirement for the 21st century". IEEE Software 31 (3): 40–47. doi:10.1109/MS.2014.22. 
  2. Penzenstadler, Birgit; Bauer, Veronika; Calero, Coral; Franch, Xavier (2012). "Sustainability in software engineering: A systematic literature review". 16th International Conference on Evaluation & Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2012). pp. 32–41. doi:10.1049/ic.2012.0004. ISBN 978-1-84919-541-6. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6272493. 
  3. Becker, Christoph; Betz, Stefanie; Chitchyan, Ruzanna; Duboc, Leticia; Easterbrook, Steve M; Penzenstadler, Birgit; Seyff, Norbet; Venters, Colin C (2016). "Requirements: The Key to Sustainability". IEEE Software 33 (1): 56–65. doi:10.1109/MS.2015.158. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/26850/1/IEEESE2016.pdf. 
  4. Becker, Christoph; Chitchyan, Ruzanna; Duboc, Leticia; Easterbrook, Steve; Mahaux, Martin; Penzenstadler, Birgit; Rodriguez-Navas, Guillermo; Salinesi, Camille; Seyff, Norbert; Venters, Colin; Calero, Coral; Sedef Akinli Kocak; Betz, Stefanie (2014). "The Karlskrona manifesto for sustainability design". arXiv:1410.6968 [cs.SE].
  5. 5.0 5.1 "Software Engineering for Sustainability (SE4S)". https://isr.uci.edu/content/software-engineering-sustainability. Retrieved 17 April 2019. 
  6. Penzenstadler, Birgit (2013). "What does Sustainability mean in and for Software Engineering?". Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255949741. Retrieved 17 April 2019. 
  7. "7th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Sustainable Systems (RE4SuSy)". http://web.csulb.edu/~bpenzens/re4susy/. Retrieved 17 April 2019. 
  8. "Home Page of International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)". http://requirements-engineering.org/. Retrieved 17 April 2019.