Abstract: Doing a PhD will probably be the most complex and life-changing experience for most people, at least in professional life. In this keynote we will discuss the value and impact of doing a PhD, I will provide useful and actionable tips on doing (and completing!) a PhD, will give tips on (scientific) writing and presenting (scientific) work. I will report about my experiences and those of others I have collected over the years, which would really have helped me to have early on when doing a PhD and would have made my life as a PhD student at least a bit easier.

Bio: Rick Rabiser (https://rickrabiser.github.io/rick/) is full university professor for Software Engineering in Cyber-Physical Systems at the Linz Institute of Technology (LIT) and head of the LIT Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Lab as well as head of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Mastering Variability in Software-intensive Cyber-Physical Production Systems (VaSiCS) and the JKU/Dynatrace Co-Innovation Lab at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. He holds a Master’s and a Ph.D. degree in Business Informatics as well as the venia docendi (Habilitation) in Practical Computer Science from Johannes Kepler University Linz. His research interests include but are not limited to variability management, systems and software product lines, software maintenance and evolution, automated software engineering, and usability of software engineering tools.