Prof. Dr. Ina Schieferdecker

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ina Schieferdecker is Head of Competence Center MOTION.

Education & Career

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ina Schieferdecker studied Mathematical Computer Science at the Humboldt University Berlin and did her PhD at the Technical University Berlin about performance-extended specifications and analysis of QoS characteristics in 1994. From 1997 to 2004, she was Head of Competence Center for Testing, Interoperability and Performance (TIP) and is currently Head of the Competence Center for Modeling and Testing (MOTION) at the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS) in Berlin.

Professorship

Prof. Schieferdecker chairs the section “Model-based Development and Quality Assurance of Software-based Systems” at Freie Universität Berlin. From 2003 to 2011, she taught “Design and Testing of Telecommunication Systems” at the Technical University Berlin. Prof. Schieferdecker was a guest researcher at various universities, for example at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Berkeley/USA, at the Centre de recherche informatique de Montréal (CRIM), Canada, at the University of Oslo, Norway and the University of Queensland, Brisbane/Australia. From 2008 to 2011, Prof. Schieferdecker was director of the Integrated Graduate Program for Human-Centric Communication.

Field of Research

Prof. Dr. Ina Schieferdecker deals with issues of analysis, testing and evaluation of communication-based, distributed software systems using specification-based techniques such as UML, MSC and TTCN-3. Furthermore Schieferdecker is the author of many scientific publications in the field of systems development and testing.

Honors

Prof. Dr. Ina Schieferdecker is a laureate of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Award for Young Professors. She received Best Paper Awards from IFIP and IARA. The ITEA projects TT-Medal, D-Mint and DIAMONDS, where she chaired the project consortium and the German consortium, won the ITEA Achievement Award and the ITEA Exhibition Award. Several of her students and postgraduates received awards for their theses.

Memberships & Engagements

- Acatech (German Academy of Science; member and ambassador)

- ASQF (Research Group Software Quality and Training; Vice President)

- Editorial Board STTT (International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer)

- Member of the advisory board of SIMULA, Norway

- Jury member EXIST Research Transfer 

- ICST Steering Committee (The International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation; member)

- German Testing Board (member)

- International Software Testing Qualifications Board (member)

- TAV (Test, analysis and verification of software; member)

- ETSI MTS (European Telecommunications Standards Institute / Methods for Testing and Specification; member)

- OMG UTP (Object Management Group, Inc. / UML Testing Profile; member)

- Testing Technologies IST GmbH, Berlin (Co-Founder)

- Berlin Scientific Society (member)

- Memberships in GI, IEEE and ACM