We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Claus Pahl has joined Software as an Editorial Board Member.

Claus Pahl is a Full Professor of software engineering at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, and the Dean of the Faculty. He received an M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Braunschweig and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Dortmund. He has held academic positions at Dublin City University, the University College Cork, Trinity College Dublin and the Technical University of Denmark before taking up his position in Bolzano. He has been a visiting researcher and guest professor at universities in Oldenburg (Germany), Edinburgh (UK) and Shenyang (China).

From 2013 to 2016, he was the Principal Investigator and Cloud Architecture Area Leader of the Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce IC4, a National Technology Centre that is operated between 3 universities and works together with more than 40 industry members. He has been involved as a member of the Executive Board for Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre (a National Research Centre with more than 150 researchers working across 7 universities) and acted as Director of the CloudCORE Cloud Computing Research Centre.

His research interests lie in the software engineering field, specifically focusing on software architecture. Service engineering and cloud/IoT architectures have served as a specific application context for his architecture research—looking into migration, architecture specification, dynamic quality and performance engineering. Currently, he works on the H2020 project 5G-CARMEN, where he investigates performance engineering aspects for edge cloud architectures.

He has published more than 300 journal and conference papers including all top cloud publications; has an h-index of 50 (according to Google Scholar) with more than 8000 citations; has chaired many international conferences in the software engineering and cloud technologies context, such as IEEE ECOWS, ICSOC, SOFSEM or CLOSER; and has been on seven journal editorial boards. He has been awarded more than EUR 5.5 million in research funding from national and international sources, involving both industry and academia. He has participated in the conference organisation of more than 150 events and has reviewed more than 35 journals. He has been an evaluator for research and innovation projects in nine countries across Europe, North America and Asia, and has reviewed many FP7 and H2020 projects for more than a decade. He has been an invited speaker and a panellist at events such as CLOSER, NC4, SE-CLOUD, WEBIST, ESOCC and HEANEt.