© Tiss: Maria Christakis

Univ.Prof. Dr. Maria Christakis was appointed as University professor for Software Engineering at TU Wien with effect from 1 September 2022. She is assigned to the Institute for Information Systems Engineering, opens an external URL in a new window (E194) at the Faculty of Informatics, opens an external URL in a new window.

Maria Christakis comes from Crete (Greece). She studied computer science at the National Technical University of Athens, where she worked as a researcher under Prof. Konstantinos Sagonas until 2011. She conducted her dissertation at ETH Zurich (CH) and received her PhD there in 2015 with a thesis on "Narrowing the gap between verification and systematic testing, opens an external URL in a new window" under Prof. Christian Müller. A subsequent post-doctoral stay took her to the USA to Microsoft Research Redmond near Seattle (Washington State). In 2016/17, she was a Lecturer and Assistant Professor at the University of Kent (UK). From October 2017, she held a career position at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Kaiserslautern (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) as a research group leader for "Practical Formal Methods".

Maria Christakis' scientific home is the Research Area Software Engineering, opens an external URL in a new window (E194-01), which she also heads. There, she is engaged in the goal of developing theoretical foundations and practical tools to create more reliable and user-friendly software and to increase developer productivity.

Publications by Maria Christakis in ReposiTUm, opens an external URL in a new window. 

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