Prof. Dr. Gregor Engels got his PhD in Computer Science in 1986 from the University of Osnabrück (Germany). He has the chair for information systems at the University of Paderborn since 1997 and is currently leading a group of about 15 researchers. Between 1991 and 1997 he had the chair for software engineering at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands).

The research interests of his group are in the field of visual languages, object-oriented modeling techniques (around UML), software process models, software development environments and tools, graph transformation, and applications thereof to the development of multimedia, real-time, embedded, or agent-based systems. Prof. Engels has published more than 120 articles in journals, books, and international conferences.

Presently, he is involved in several European as well as national research and industrial projects, like the TMR network GETGRATS and the ESPRIT working group APPLIGRAPH, which are both in the area of foundations and applications of visual, graph-based languages. He was member of the ESPRIT BRWG PROMOTER on software process modelling techniques as well as member of the ESPRIT Network of Excellence RENOIR in the requirements engineering field. Currently, he acts as main coordinator of a 3 million Euro national (BMBF) project with seven partners on Multimedia Software Engineering (MuSofT). Gregor Engels has also substantial experience in the organization of conferences and workshops, like the national computer science conference, 1999 in Paderborn with more than 600 participants. Lastly, he is active in transferring research results into industry, based on his membership in the board of directors of the C-Lab (a joint venture of Siemens AG and University of Paderborn) as well as of the software company s&n AG, Paderborn.