Prof. Dr. Pekka Abrahamsson and Prof. Dr. Tommi Mikkonen Appointed Founding Editors-in-Chief of Software

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Pekka Abrahamsson and Prof. Dr. Tommi Mikkonen have been appointed founding Editors-in-Chief of the new journal Software (ISSN 2674-113X, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/software).

Name: Prof. Dr. Pekka Abrahamsson
Affiliation: Head of IS Research Division, Director of Software Startuplab, Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyvaskyla, Finland
Interests: empirical software engineering; software startups; software robots; ethics in artificial intelligence

Prof. Dr. Pekka Abrahamsson works as a full professor of information systems and software engineering at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. He received his Ph.D. in software engineering in 2002 from the University of Oulu. Prior to his current position, he worked as a full professor at the Free University of Bozen Bolzano (Italy) and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway). His research interests are in empirical software engineering, software startups, emerging software technologies, and the ethics of artificial intelligence. He is widely recognized for his academic achievements. He is a pioneer in research on agile software engineering methods and processes. Prof. Dr. Abrahamsson is a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. Arnetminer named him among the 100 most influential software engineering scientists in the world in 2016. Prof. Dr. Abrahamsson was awarded the Nokia Foundation Award 2007. He is also the co-founder of the Software Startup Research Network (SSRN).

Name: Prof. Dr. Tommi Mikkonen
Affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Interests: software engineering; software architecture; web programming

Prof. Dr. Tommi Mikkonen is a full professor of software engineering at the University of Jyväskylä and a full professor of software systems at the University of Helsinki, both located in Finland. He received his Dr. Tech. in information technology in 1999 from Tampere University of Technology, Finland. In addition to his academic positions, he has been a principal scientist at Nokia and a visiting professor at Sun Microsystems Research and at Mozilla. His research interests include the IoT, software development methods, multi-device programming, and software engineering for AI. Prof. Dr. Mikkonen is a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, and he has acted as a board member of the Finnish Information Processing Association. He is the year 2017 Open World Hero, nominated by the Center of Open Source Software in Finland.

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Pekka Abrahamsson and Prof. Dr. Tommi Mikkonen as the founding Editors-in-Chief of Software and look forward to Software achieving many milestones under their leadership. For further information on the journal’s aim and scope, please visit https://www.mdpi.com/journal/software/about.