Chair of Information Systems and Software Engineering
Profile of the Research Group

In its research, the chair focuses on the challenges associated with digital transformation and examines the opportunities that digital change offers companies. We focus on the research of smart products and services, the efficient design of modern user interfaces in the context of web engineering, and the transformation of energy networks into smart grids.
Our goal is to train business information systems specialists with a profound knowledge of software engineering concepts. Students learn to evaluate and acquire technologies from an innovation and management perspective. The focus of the education is on the design of the process level.
Thu, 15. Jan 2026
Aktuelle Forschungserfolge am SOFTEC-Lehrstuhl zum Jahreswechsel
Zum Jahreswechsel 2025/2026 konnte der SOFTEC-Lehrstuhl mehrere Forschungserfolge verzeichnen, die sich mit den tiefgreifenden Auswirkungen agentischer Informationssysteme und generativer Künstlicher Intelligenz auf...
read onTue, 04. Nov 2025
SOFTEC contributes research on GenAI-based user simulation at ICIS 2025
We are pleased to announce that Florian Holldack, Leonardo Banh and Gero Strobel have had their paper „Synthetic Conversations, Real Insights: Towards Realistic User Simulations with Generative Agents“ accepted for presentation at...
read onThu, 30. Oct 2025
SOFTEC at the Day of Computer Science 2025: Research on Compassionate AI
On October 29, 2025, the Day of Computer Science was held by the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen in cooperation with Fraunhofer IMS at the Fraunhofer inHaus Center in Duisburg. Under the motto “Bits...
read onTue, 30. Sept 2025
Studienprojektthemen für das WS25/26 jetzt online
Die Projektthemen für das Wintersemester 2022/2023 sind ab sofort auf unserer Seite verfügbar. Ihr könnt Euch über das Online-Bewerbungsformular bis zum 12.10.2025 (23:55 Uhr) bewerben. In diesem Semester bieten wir wieder...
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SOFTEC Successfully Represented at WI 2025 in Münster and Wins Best Student Paper Award
Our chair has every reason to celebrate after a successful participation at the 20th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI 2025), held in Münster from September 13 to 17! First and foremost, we warmly congratulate...
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