Chair of Software Engineering

Welcome to Software Engineering

The Chair of Software Engineering at RUB combines foundational and applied research to automate software engineering for the next generation of intelligent, autonomous, and variant-rich software systems. We explore new ways of software creation, analysis, and evolution. Our main application domains are automotive systems, systems software (e.g. Linux kernel), software ecosystems (e.g. Android apps), and mobile robots.

We are proud that we do not only teach the boring theory of software engineering, but embrace its operationalization with many practical courses and labs. In fact, we offer most of the practical courses in our CS study programs.

We are always looking for motivated research assistants, teaching assistants, and scientific staff at the PhD or Postdoc level, to work with us on the future of engineering intelligent software systems. See Jobs.

  • SE-Lab Team receives EXIST Funding
    The start-up team Platypus Interactive has been awarded an EXIST start-up grant since May 2026. The founders first met during the Software Engineering Lab course at the Chair of Software Engineering. Prof. Dr. Thorsten Berger continues to support the project and advises the team on the further development of its technology. Platypus Interactive is developing … Read more
  • Robotics Software Engineering Meeting 2026
    5th edition of the annual meeting we established years ago: https://rsemeeting.github.io/rse2026/ Join us in Barcelona!
  • Podcast Nachgehackt #31 published
    In the latest episode of the IT security podcast Nachgehackt, Prof. Dr. Thorsten Berger and Dr. Sven Peldszus talk about how to build secure software for autonomous vehicles and all the challenges that come with it. You can listen to it here and watch the discussion here.
  • Most Influential Paper Award @ ACM SIGPLAN SLE
    The paper “Towards User-Friendly Projectional Editors“, co-authored by Prof. Dr. Thorsten Berger, was awarded the Most Influential Paper award at the latest ACM International Conference of Software Language Engineering. It was originally presented at the conference in 2014.
  • Privacy E2E Project Meeting
    On August 26, the first project meeting of all participants of the Privacy E2E project (funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) took place in Bochum. Participants of all three partners met at RUB to discuss current developments within the topics of privacy & data proctection and to share first research results. … Read more
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