Sven Apel, Prof. Dr. |
Professor of Computer Science |
Chair of Software Engineering |
Saarland Informatics Campus |
Saarland University |
Saarland University, Saarland Informatics Campus |
Building E1.1, Room 2.11 |
66123 Saarbrücken, Germany |
Phone: +49 681 302 57211 |
E-Mail: |
Curriculum vitae, short bio, DBLP, Google Scholar, ACM, ORCiD, Bluesky |
A key vision driving my research is to empower software engineering practice to enter an era of intensive automation. I develop and evaluate methods, tools, and theories for the construction of manageable, reliable, efficient, configurable, and evolvable software systems. In particular, I am interested in:
Software product lines and configurable systems |
Domain-specific generation and optimization |
Software analytics and intelligence |
Empirical methods and the human factor in software engineering |
I apply my research results routinely to real-world software systems and projects from different domains, in particular, data-intensive, operating, and high-performance computing systems, both from the open-source realm or in collaborations with partners from industry, such as Siemens AG, Bosch Austria, Airbus Helicopters, and Fraunhofer IESE.
ERC Advanced Grant “Brains On Code” |
ASE Fellow |
ACM Distinguished Member for Outstanding Scientific Contributions to Computing |
Hugo Junkers Award for Research and Innovation, awarded by the State of Saxony-Anhalt |
Appointment to the Young Academy of Europe (5 years) |
Heisenberg Professorship of the German Research Foundation |
Emmy-Noether Fellowship of the German Research Foundation |
Award of the University of Magdeburg and the Karin-Witte Foundation for the Best Doctoral Dissertation 2007 |
Software-Engineering Award of the Ernst-Denert Foundation for the Best Doctoral Dissertation 2007 |
Award of the School of Computer Science, University of Magdeburg for Outstanding Scientific Achievements 2006 |
Brains On Code (ERC Advanced Grant, 2 500 000 Euro, 2022–2027) |
CPEC (DFG, TRR 248, Principal Investigator, Projects C2 & E3, 2022–2026) |
Congruence (DFG, 620 000 Euro, 2020–2024) |
Pervolution (DFG, 520 000 Euro, 2017–2024) |
ExaStencils (DFG, SPP 1648, 510 000 Euro, 2013–2018) |
SafeSPL++ (DFG, Heisenberg Program, 660 000 Euro, 2013–2018) |
Pythia (DFG, SPP 1593, 700 000 Euro, 2012–2017) |
FeatureOpt (FFG, 100 000 Euro, 2015–2018) |
SafeSPL (DFG, Emmy-Noether Program, 1 300 000 Euro, 2010–2015) |
MapReduceFoundation (DFG, 160 000 Euro, 2011–2013) |
FeatureFoundation (DFG, 320 000 Euro, 2009–2013) |
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FeatureHouse: Language-Independent Feature Composition | cppstats: Analyzing C Preprocessor Directives |
JDime: Structured Merge of Software Versions | SPL Conqueror: Performance Prediction of Software Variants |
SPLverifier: Variability-Aware Model Checking | TypeChef: Variability-Aware Static Analysis |
FeatureVisu: Layout-Based Feature Clustering | Codeface: Project Analysis and Dashboard Framework |
FeatureIDE: Feature-Oriented Software Development | Fuji: Feature-Oriented Programming in Java |
CIDE: Virtual Separation of Concerns |