Name:Birgit Penzenstadler

Bio:

Birgit Penzenstadler is faculty at the University of Limerick, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and Lappeenranta Lahti University of Technology, Finland (before: California State University Long Beach). Her research encompasses several topics: She has been researching the relation between sustainability and software engineering for fifteen years and focuses on artifact-based requirements engineering and requirements engineering for sustainability. She also investigates how neuroplasticity practices can support engineers and other computer workers in improving their presence, creativity, cognitive abilities, immune systems, sleep and overall resilience. Lastly, she looks into regenerative agriculture and how to apply grassroots community principles within SE. Her expertise includes requirements elicitation, analysis, design and documentation techniques, for example sustainability goal modeling, as well as artifact models, quality modeling, tool support, and process improvement (see https://www.sustainabilitydesign.org and http://birgit.penzenstadler.de). Penzenstadler received a habilitation from the Technical University of Munich’s Faculty of Informatics. She’s a member of IEEE and ACM. Contact her at birgitp @ chalmers.se

Country:Ireland

Affiliation:University of Limerick, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Gothenburg University, and Lappenranta University of Technology

Research interests:Requirements Engineering; Sustainability