Cooperation projects for sustainable software development between research and practice
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On this page, you will find researchers working at the intersection of (social, environmental, and/or economic) sustainability and software development. Here, you have the opportunity to establish collaborations for joint:
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SUSO Core Team
Furtwangen University (Germany) & Lappeenranta University of Technology (Finland)
Prof. Dr. Stefanie Betz, Computer Science and Applications (CSA)
stefanie.betz(at)hs-furtwangen.de
About:
Prof. Dr. Stefanie Betz studied Information Systems at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), where she also completed her doctorate. She subsequently spent her postdoctoral period in Sweden at the Software Engineering Research Lab (SERL) at Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH). She later served as junior research group leader of the “Sustainable Software Systems Engineering” group at KIT. Today, she is Professor of Socio-Informatics at the Faculty of Computer Science at Furtwangen University (HFU). Her research focuses on understanding how the individual, social, and environmental impacts of software systems can already be considered and improved during the design phase.
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Inquiries via email.
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Technical University of Munich & Furtwangen University (Germany)
Dr. Dominic Lammert
About:
Dominic Lammert studied Social and Cultural Anthropology in Vienna and Freiburg as well as Media Informatics (M.Sc.) in Bielefeld and Aix-en-Provence. After professional positions in the publishing and startup sectors, he worked as a research associate in the field of Socio-Informatics at Furtwangen University. There, he conducted research on sustainable digitalization and coordinated, among other projects, KISS (Artificial Intelligence – Services – Systems), an interdisciplinary initiative together with the Trossingen University of Music.
He completed his PhD in cooperation with LUT University (Finland), focusing on the implementation of social, environmental, and economic sustainability in software products and services, from which SUSO later emerged. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Munich, where he conducts research on intercultural requirements engineering and participatory technology design. His particular interest lies in the ethical digitalization of the social and healthcare sectors.
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International SUSO Network
University of São Paulo
Prof. Dr. Elisa Yumi Nakagawa
elisa(at)icmc.usp.br
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Inquiries via email.
Selected publications:
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Andreas Fritsch, Institute for Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods
andreas.fritsch(at)kit.edu
About:
Andreas Fritsch is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the environmental and social impacts of information technology and on developing methods to integrate sustainability analyses into organizational information systems. He has expertise in business process management, social and environmental life cycle assessments, as well as software engineering, database systems, and web technologies.
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Inquiries via email.
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Lappeenranta University of Technology (Finland)
Prof. Dr. Jari Porras, LUT School of Engineering Sciences
jari.porras(at)lut.fi
Über:
Jari Porras, D.Sc. (Tech), is Professor of Software Engineering, particularly distributed systems, at LUT University. Prof. Porras received his D.Sc. (Tech) in 1998 from Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland, with a dissertation on the modeling and simulation of communication networks in distributed computing environments.
Since the beginning of his professorship, he has supervised approximately 500 master’s theses and 22 doctoral dissertations and has served as an external examiner for 21 doctoral theses. His research has covered parallel and distributed computing, wireless and mobile systems and services, as well as sustainable ICT.
In recent years, he has focused his research on human and sustainability aspects of software development. He is actively involved in international research networks and organizations.
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Inquiries via email.
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Lappeenranta University of Technology (Finland)
Dr. Shola Oyedeji, LUT School of Engineering Sciences
shola.oyedeji(at)lut.fi
About:
Shola Oyedeji is a postdoctoral researcher at LUT University Finland with research on software sustainability by design focused on integrating the human, societal, environmental, technical and economic concerns into software systems design and measurement to support sustainability. He is also a postdoctoral researcher fellow at University L’Aquila, Italy with research on Identifying and prioritizing sustainability concerns of companies to software design.
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Inquiries via email.
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University of the West of England Bristol
Ian Brooks, Faculty of Environment and Technology (FET)
ian.brooks(at)uwe.ac.uk
About:
Ian Brooks is a university lecturer and business consultant with many years of experience in sustainability, information technology (IT), and corporate strategy. He teaches and conducts research at the intersection of sustainability and technology, with a particular focus on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
His research is particularly concerned with anticipating the sustainability impacts of IT systems and critically assessing claims associated with #Tech4Good. At the same time, his work highlights how information technology can also enable negative sustainability impacts (#Tech4Bad), for example through the fossil fuel industry’s dependence on IT.
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Open to any collaboration where the SDGs are at the core of the project.
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Chalmers University of Technology & University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
Prof. Dr. Birgit Penzenstadler
birgitp(at)chalmers.se
About:
Birgit Penzenstadler is an Associate Professor at the joint Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and a lecturer at LUT University, Finland.
She received her PhD in Software Engineering from the Technical University of Munich. In addition, she is an Embodied Mindfulness Coach and a 500-RYT yoga teacher with a specialized certification in breathwork.
Over the past ten years, she has researched well-being (https://www.twinkleflip.com/), resilience, and sustainability from a software engineering perspective. Her work focuses on developing knowledge and concepts to support sustainability within requirements engineering (RE). Part of these efforts is documented in the Karlskrona Alliance, which has published a series of works, including the Karlskrona Manifesto (see also https://www.sustainabilitydesign.org).
She has integrated these topics into the curricula of her departments at several universities, including the Technical University of Munich, the University of California, Irvine, California State University Long Beach, and Chalmers University of Technology, and has established industry collaborations for case studies.
In 2022, she gave a TEDx talk in Gothenburg on how well-being, resilience, and sustainability are interconnected and how these aspects can be considered in the development of technologies:
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Her interests include work on well-being, resilience, and various application areas of ecological, individual, and social sustainability, such as permaculture, wildlife conservation, nature-based recreation, and topics such as diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW)
Prof. Dr. Norbert Seyff, Institute for Interactive Technologies
norbert.seyff(at)fhnw.ch
About:
Norbert Seyff is Professor of Requirements Engineering (RE) at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) and Senior Research Associate at the University of Zurich.
Important aspects of his work include teaching Requirements Engineering knowledge to his students as well as collaborating with companies and supporting knowledge transfer to industry.
His research interests include Requirements Engineering, software modeling, and sustainability. A particular focus of his work is the stronger involvement of end users in Requirements Engineering activities.
Norbert received his PhD in Computer Science from Johannes Kepler University Linz and is an active member of the international RE community, where he regularly serves on program committees for internationally renowned conferences such as RE and REFSQ.
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Norbert particularly appreciates the idea of researching sustainability in software engineering together with companies and collaborating with new research partners on this topic.
Selected publications:
www.sustaianbilitydesign.org
University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Dr. Nelly Condori-Fernandez, Singular Center for Research in Intelligent Technologies (CITIUS)
n.condori.fernandez(at)usc.es
About:
Dr. Condori-Fernandez is a senior researcher at the Research Center for Intelligent Technologies (CITIUS) and a lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC, Spain). She received her PhD in Software Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. During her postdoctoral research at the University of Twente (Netherlands), supported by a trans-European Marie Curie fellowship, she worked on the empirical study of service-oriented requirements engineering for healthcare.
The Singular Center for Research in Intelligent Technologies (CITIUS) at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC, founded in 1495) has a team of more than 140 people, including 35 senior researchers. CITIUS actively participates in technology transfer projects with industry, with around 20% of its revenue coming from direct industry contracts. The center collaborates with SMEs as well as large multinational companies such as Indra, Repsol, Babcock, FINSA, Lacer, Plexus, and Mestrelab, and also with public institutions such as the Galician Health Service (Sergas) and the Galician Agency for Technological Modernization (Amtega). Over the past three years (2020 -2022), the center had a budget of €10 million, of which 21% was funded through European projects.
USC has been recognized as an International Campus of Excellence for the strategic research program Campus Life by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science. Campus Life defines and contributes to the development of a new model for sustainable economic and social growth based on talent, innovation, and internationalization.
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De La Salle University (Manila)
Dr. Leticia Duboc, Department of Engineering, Human-Environment Research
l.duboc(at)salle.url.edu
About:
Leticia Duboc is a lecturer and researcher at Ramon Llull University, La Salle. She holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Computer Science from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), a PhD in Computer Science from University College London (UK), a master’s degree in Project Management from La Salle (Spain), and postgraduate degrees in Circular Economy, Sustainability, and Technology Transfer from the University of Barcelona and Pompeu Fabra University (Spain).
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Leticia has been active in academic and industrial research for more than 20 years. Over the past decade, she has focused her research on the intersection of software engineering and sustainability, with a particular emphasis on the development of socio-technical systems and their potential impacts on society. She is one of the co-authors of the Manifesto on Sustainability Design (http://sustainabilitydesign.org/), co-founder of the Karlskrona Alliance on Sustainability Design, and co-founder of the Agile4Sustainability group (agile4sustainability.wordpress.com). More recently, she has also led an initiative to design the sustainability strategy of La Salle-URL.
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Additional Project Partners
Sustainability Reporting and Strategy Consulting
Many small and medium-sized enterprises in the EU are required to publish sustainability reports in accordance with the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the EU Taxonomy. A sustainability report provides the data foundation for refining a company’s strategy and generating competitive advantages. Through a systemic analysis, the driving dynamics of corporate development are modeled and strategic leverage points for an economically successful and more sustainable business model are identified.
Emma Gothár
Managing Director, S+ Sustainability and Strategy GmbH
Emma Gothár is an expert in sustainability management and the circular economy, with a particular focus on packaging. In her doctoral research at the University of Freiburg, she examined the strategic and entrepreneurial implementation
of sustainability. As founder and managing director of S+, she brings her expertise into practice and develops innovative solutions for sustainable business models. Her background in international relations and environmental sciences
complements her practice-oriented approach to transformation processes in business.
Dr. Martin Ritter
Founder and Consultant, S+ Sustainability and Strategy GmbH
Dr. Martin Ritter is an expert in sustainable business models, sustainability strategies, and sustainable value chains. He received his PhD from the University of Freiburg in the field of Environmental Governance, focusing on sustainable business models in the sharing economy using car-sharing models as a case study. Alongside his doctoral research, Dr. Ritter worked as an independent consultant for GIZ on sustainable value chains in apiculture in East Africa. In addition, he works as a science manager at the University of Freiburg and is the founder of S+ GmbH.
Dr. David Sipple
Partner and Consultant, S+ Sustainability and Strategy GmbH
Dr. David Sipple is an economic geographer who, during his doctoral research at the University of Freiburg, focused extensively on the development of sustainable food systems at the municipal level. He has broad expertise in sustainability transformation across the governance level (“entrepreneurial ecosystem”) and the operational level. His experience includes solution-oriented systemic modeling, which enables the evidence-based identification of concrete leverage points within organizations through which sustainability aspects can be particularly effectively strengthened. In addition to his role as partner and consultant at S+, Dr. Sipple works as a research group leader at the Humboldt Professorship for Sustainable Food Systems at the Institute of Economics at the University of Freiburg.