Dr. Claus Pahl

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Employment

Dr. Claus Pahl is a graduate (1990) from the University of Technology in Braunschweig. He holds a PhD (1996) from the University of Dortmund. He worked as a research assistant from 1991 to 1994 at the University of Essen and from 1994 to 1996 at the University of Dortmund. Claus started lecturing at University College Cork after postdoctoral research at the Technical University of Denmark and Trinity College Dublin in 1996 and 1997. He joined Dublin City University as a lecturer in 1999. He lectures in the areas of software engineering, database and e-commerce. He is currently the chair of the Masters in Computer Applications programme board. Prior to his academic career, he has been working in industry as a software development engineer and as an IT consultant.

Research

Dr. Pahl has been researching in software technology for more than 20 years. Educational technologies are his other key area of expertise. He has published more than 200 papers on a wide range of software engineering, Web and educational technology issues such as software prototyping, module and component languages, foundational aspects of programming and specification languages, implementation of programming languages and environments, and Internet/Web-based applications. He has reviewed papers for more than 100 international journals, conferences, and workshops.

Projects

He has been involved in various national and international research projects. As a principal investigator, he has received research grants from various sources.

• He has been involved in the EU-funded DeStijl-project (DEsign and Specification Through Interfacing and Joining Languages) as a researcher. This project – a collaboration of six academic and industrial partners – has focussed on modular, interoperable specification languages.
• He currently pursues research in Web service and component technology within the Dependable Systems research group at the School of Computing at DCU. The investigation of ontology-based semantic Web service technology is a key interest area.
• He has initiated the INVITE project (INfrastructures for VIrtual Teaching and learning Environments), which focuses on software engineering aspects of educational technology, such as architectures and data formats. An educational system – a virtual lecture, tutorial and lab system – developed by him and his students is in use for undergraduate teaching.

Several postgraduate students successfully completed their research under his supervision. His research group currently consists of six full-time postgraduate research students.

Memberships

Dr. Pahl is the member of the IEEE, the European Association for Programming Languages and Systems EAPLS, the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science EATCS, the European Association for Software and Systems Technologies EASST, the Irish Formal Methods Special Interest Group IFMSIG, and the Irish Learning Technology Association ILTA.

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