I am a Marie-Curie Fellow in the Computing Department at Lancaster University, UK. I came here from Technische Universität Dresden, Germany, where I had been a PhD student and research associate since 2002.

Before that I was a student of computer science at Technische Universität Dresden, my diploma thesis was on the Object Constraint Language (OCL), a part of the Unified Modeling Language (UML). In particular, I worked on a case study with sd&m research to understand whether OCL is useable---and useful---in practice.

In 2007, I received my doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) from Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. My doctoral thesis was in the area of non-functional properties of component-based systems and was awarded summa cum laude.

Whenever I am not sitting in front of the computer doing important research, I am most likely to be found a) in front of a book reading stories (well, anything, actually), or b) in rehearsals working on some new theatre play.

Steffen Zschaler, Pablo Sánchez, Joao Santos, Mauricio Alférez, Awais Rashid, Lidia Fuentes, Ana Moreira, Joao Araujo, and Uirá Kulesza: VML* -- A Family of Languages for Variability Management in Software Product Lines. Mark van den Brand, Dragan Gasevic, and Jeff Gray (eds.): Software Language Engineering, 2nd Int'l Conf. (SLE 2009), Revised Selected Papers. LNCS 5969, Springer, 2010.
Acceptance rate: 20%
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Florian Heidenreich, Jakob Henriksson, Jendrik Johannes, and Steffen Zschaler: On Language-Independent Model Modularisation. Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Development VI, Special Issue on Aspects and MDE. LNCS 5560, pp. 39--82, Springer, 2009.
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Steffen Zschaler: Formal Specification of Non-functional Properties of Component-Based Software Systems: A Semantic Framework and Some Applications Thereof. Software and Systems Modelling Journal (SoSyM) 9(2):161-- 201, 2009.
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Holger Kampffmeyer and Steffen Zschaler: Finding the Pattern You Need: The Design Pattern Intent Ontology. Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (Proc. MODELS 2007), pages 211--225, LNCS 4735, Springer, 2007.
Acceptance rate: 28%
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Hermann Härtig, Steffen Zschaler, Martin Pohlack, Ronald Aigner, Steffen Göbel, Christoph Pohl, and Simone Röttger: Enforceable Component-Based Realtime Contracts -- Supporting Realtime Properties from Software Development to Execution. In Springer Real-Time Systems Journal, Volume 35, Number 1, Springer, 2007.
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