Mayr-Dorn's post-doctoral dissertation titled “Supporting Implicit and Explicit Coordination in Software-Intensive Systems Engineering” focuses on ways to assist engineers during the development process involving systems or software by providing timely and automated support to estimate and adhere to dependencies between technical artefacts, task readiness, quality assurance measures, and process loyalty.

About Christoph Mayr-Dorn
Dr. Christoph Mayr-Dorn is a senior post-doc researcher at the JKU Institute for Software Systems Engineering and head of several industrial and base-knowledge research projects. Dr. Mayr-Dorn earned his PhD at the Vienna University of Technology in 2009. As part of an Erwin Schrödinger Mobility Fellowship financed by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, Dr. Mayr-Dorn worked as a guest researcher with Prof. Richard Taylor at UC Irvine (California) between March 2011 and August 2012. He was part-time Area Manager for Cognitive Robotics and Shopfloors at the FFG Comet Center Pro2Future between July 2018 and January 2020. Christoph Mayr-Dorn is well recognized within the scientific community in the field of software engineering processes and collaboration-centric adaptation mechanisms (i.e. mechanisms required for repair). He has multiple publications in high-impact forums including ICSE, MSR, SANER, CAiSE, and BPM. He is active in several areas of research, including software process support, mining software developer interactions, software architecture, and flexible cyber-physical production systems.

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