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.
Birgit Penzenstadler | |
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 Penzenstadler in 2019 | |
| Born | |
| Alma mater | University of Passau (MSc) Technical University of Munich (PhD) Technical University of Munich (Habilitation) UC Irvine (Postdoc) |
| Known for | The 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] |
| Title | Associate Professor |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Software Engineering for Sustainability |
| Institutions | Chalmers University of Technology Lappeenranta University of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Manfred Broy |
| Other academic advisors | Bill Tomlinson
Debra Richardson |
| Website | birgit |
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
editShe 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
edit- ^ 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. Bibcode:2014IEES...31...40P. doi:10.1109/MS.2014.22. S2CID 7719427.
- ^ 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. hdl:2117/171818. ISBN 978-1-84919-541-6.
- ^ Becker, Christoph; Betz, Stefanie; Chitchyan, Ruzanna; Duboc, Leticia; Easterbrook, Steve M; Penzenstadler, Birgit; Seyff, Norbet; Venters, Colin C (2016). "Requirements: The Key to Sustainability" (PDF). IEEE Software. 33 (1): 56–65. doi:10.1109/MS.2015.158. S2CID 2252430.
- ^ 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].
- ^ a b "Software Engineering for Sustainability (SE4S)". Software Engineering for Sustainability Project. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
- ^ Penzenstadler, Birgit (2013). "What does Sustainability mean in and for Software Engineering?". Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S). Retrieved 17 April 2019.
- ^ "7th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Sustainable Systems (RE4SuSy)". Retrieved 17 April 2019.
- ^ "Home Page of International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)". Home Page of International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE). Retrieved 17 April 2019.