Field of Work
Software engineering is the study of the processes, methods, techniques and tools used to support the creation and further development of software. Wagner is mainly interested in the practical side of software engineering, using conceptual and empirical work to transfer insights into practice. The main focus areas are software quality, quality analyses and quality assurance, requirements engineering, safety engineering and tool support for all phases of software development. The Department of Software Engineering has experience of collaboration with a wide range of different companies from all kinds of industries, including Google, SAP, Siemens, MAN and BMW.
Personal Information
Computer scientist Prof. Stefan Wagner was born in Aichach, Bavaria, in 1978. After studying at Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, he obtained a master's degree in distributed and multimedia information systems at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. Back in Germany, Wagner gained a doctorate at the Chair for Software and Systems Engineering at TU Munich in the field of quality assurance, and he worked there as a postdoc until 2011. Since then he has been a professor of software engineering at the University of Stuttgart. The most important distinctions Wagner has gained for his work include Best Paper Awards from the practice oriented conferences CONQUEST 2010 and Software Quality Days 2012, and also a Google Research Award.