The University of Duisburg-Essen, UDE, (https://www.uni-due.de/en) thinks in terms of possibilities, not limitations. UDE is strong in research and teaching, lives diversity, supports potential and is highly committed to an educational equality that has earned this name. UDE is member of the University Alliance Ruhr (https://www.uaruhr.de/index.html.en ), which pools more than 120,000 students as well as 9,000 researchers.

UDE’s Ruhr Institute for Software Technology, known as paluno (https://paluno.uni-due.de/en/), is one of the largest software engineering research institutes in Germany. 12 professors and more than 100 researchers are jointly working at the forefront of software engineering research. They investigate and evaluate principles, techniques, methods, and tools for engineering, operating, and adapting future software-intensive systems.

The paluno team conducts fundamental and applied research on important areas of software engineering, including autonomous and ML/AI-based systems, software architecture, security-privacy-trust, cloud computing, human-computer-interaction, and digital learning environments.