Birgit Penzenstadler facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Birgit Penzenstadler
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Penzenstadler in 2019
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September 9, 1981
Erding, Germany |
| Alma mater | University of Passau (MSc) Technical University of Munich (PhD) Technical University of Munich (Habilitation) UC Irvine (Postdoc) |
| Known for | The Karlskrona Manifesto Safety, Security, Now Sustainability: The Nonfunctional Requirement for the 21st Century Sustainability in software engineering: A systematic literature review Requirements: The key to sustainability |
| Title | Associate Professor |
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| Fields | Software Engineering for Sustainability |
| Institutions | Chalmers University of Technology Lappeenranta University of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Manfred Broy |
| Other academic advisors | Bill Tomlinson Debra Richardson |
Birgit Penzenstadler was born on September 9, 1981, in Erding, Germany. She is a German associate professor who teaches Software Engineering. She works at Chalmers University of Technology and also at Lappeenranta University of Technology.
Professor Penzenstadler is well known for her work on how to make software engineering more sustainable. This means making sure that the way we create computer programs and systems is good for the planet. She also helped start an initiative to research sustainability in technology fields like computer science.
She earned her PhD in Software Engineering from the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Besides her work in technology, she is also a certified yoga teacher and a coach for Mindfulness. She also practices Reiki and helps people with a method called NET.
What is Software Engineering for Sustainability?
Birgit Penzenstadler has spent over ten years studying how software engineering can help with well-being, resilience, and sustainability. Well-being means feeling good and healthy. Resilience is about being able to bounce back from tough times. Sustainability is about meeting our needs today without harming the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
She works on ideas and methods to support sustainability from inside software development. This includes how we define what a software program needs to do. Some of her ideas are part of the Karlskrona Alliance, which created the Karlskrona Manifesto. This manifesto shares important ideas about designing technology in a sustainable way. You can learn more at sustainabilitydesign.org.
Professor Penzenstadler also guides meditation and breathwork sessions online. You can find these on Insight Timer.
Connecting Technology and Well-being
In 2022, she gave a TEDx talk in Goeteborg, Sweden. She explained how well-being, resilience, and sustainability are all connected. She also talked about how we can think about these important ideas when we design new technology. You can watch her talk on YouTube.
Before working at Chalmers University of Technology, Birgit Penzenstadler was a professor at California State University, Long Beach. She also did special research at the University of California, Irvine. There, she worked with Professor Debra J. Richardson and Professor Bill Tomlinson. Together, they created a plan called SE4S. This plan helps to add sustainability ideas into the early steps of software engineering. These steps include figuring out what a program needs to do and making sure it works correctly.
In 2013, Professor Penzenstadler created the term "Software Engineering for Sustainability." She also organized workshops from 2012 to 2021. These workshops focused on "Requirements Engineering for Sustainable Systems." From 2015 to 2019, she led the Resilience Lab at California State University, Long Beach. This lab studied how software systems can be designed to be more sustainable.
