PhD Position on Systematic Software Language Engineering at University of Stuttgart

The Institute for Control Engineering of Machine Tools and Manufacturing Units (ISW) of the University of Stuttgart offers a

PhD Student Vacancy in the research area of
Systematic Software Language Engineering

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world”.

This insight formulated in 1918 by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein also holds for today’s software languages. Many domain concepts cannot be expressed in these languages, which raises a gap between the knowledge of domain experts and software engineering. Domain-specific languages (DSLs) aim to reduce this gap by providing domain concepts within the language.Creating DSLs and corresponding software tools is a sophisticated challenge due to the complexity of DSL implementations, limitations of modularization, reuse, and variation management techniques for DSLs.In this research project, novel concepts and methods for the compositional development of DSLs shall be investigated, realized, and evaluated with languages from systems engineering (such as SysML v2).

Your future research area

- Development of new concepts, methods, and tools to create, instantiate, and
  operate digital twins that reduce energy consumption in manufacturing
- Conception of experiments to evaluate the effectivity of such digital twins
- Application of the concepts, methods and tools in vari-ous scenarios
- Supervision of students
- Publication of research results

Your profile

- Completed a degree in computer science or a related field with excellent
  grades
- Confident demeanor, creativity, and very good German or English skills
- Scientific curiosity
- Interest and readiness for interdisciplinary cooperation
- Ability to work independently
- Knowledge in model-driven engineering

We offer

- Cooperation in a young and motivated team at the institute in an excellent
  working atmosphere
- The possibility to conduct PhD research in an exciting and interdisciplinary
  subject area
- An environment in which you learn excellent research and its application to
  industrial practice
- Innovative insights into current and future technological developments

Recruitment is carried out by the Central Administration of the University of Stuttgart. Employment, remuneration and social benefits are based on the collective agreement for the public service (TV-L E13).

Send your application by mail or e-mail to

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Wortmann
ISW Universität Stuttgart
Seidenstr. 36
70174 Stuttgart

[email protected]

https://www.isw.uni-stuttgart.de/en/