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Brian Fitzgerald was a founding Principal Investigator in Lero–the Irish Software Research Centre in 2005, and subsequently held the roles of Director and Chief Scientist at Lero. He holds an endowed professorship, the Krehbiel Chair in Innovation in Business & Technology, at the University of Limerick, where he also served as Vice President Research.
He holds a PhD from the University of London and his research interests lie primarily in software development, encompassing open source, inner source, crowdsourcing, agile and continuous software development. His publications include 17 books, and over 200 peer-reviewed articles in the leading international journals and conferences in both the Information Systems and Software Engineering fields.
In 2020, he was elected President of the Association for Information Systems, the global body for Information Systems worldwide, and in 2024 he was awarded the LEO Award for outstanding lifetime contribution to the IS discipline.
He is also General Chair for the premier conferences in both disciplines, the 37th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2016, and the 49th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), to be held in Dublin in 2027.
His research projects have received over €115m in peer-reviewed funding.
Prior to taking up an academic position, he worked as a software developer for about 12 years, working in Ireland, Belgium and Germany
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