Timo Kehrer
Contact & Links
- Prof. Dr. Timo Kehrer
- Professor and Chair of SEG
- timo.kehrer@unibe.ch
- +41 31 684 46 18
- Room 104
- Joined Jan 2022

Short Bio
Prof. Timo Kehrer has joined the Institute of Computer Science in January 2022, where he established the Software Engineering Group (SEG). With a PhD from the University of Siegen (DE), and after holding a post-doctoral research fellow position at Politecnico di Milano (IT) and being a visiting researcher at the University of Leicester (UK), he previously was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE).
Academic Administration
- Director of Studies (Bachelor) at the Institute of Computer Science
- Member of the Quality Assurance and Development Expert Committee of the Faculty of Science (Department Delegate)
- Memeber of the Strategy Board of the Faculty of Science (Deputy Department Delegate)
- Member of the Hauskommission Campus Engehalte (Institute Delegate)
- Member of the Equal Opportunities Commission of the Faculty of Science
Research Interests
- Model- and data-centric software engineering
- Model-based software analysis and quality assurance
- Software evolution and variability management
Research Projects
- Please check our projects website for an overview of funded research projects.
Scientific Boards and Steering Committees
- CHOOSE: Swiss Group for Software Engineering, Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Swiss Informatics Society: Presidency (since 02/2024)
- VaMoS: International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems: Steering Committee member (since 2024)
- Re:Volution: International Workshop on Reverse Variability Engineering and Evolution of Software-Intensive System: Steering Committee member (since 2024)
- GReTA: International Seminar Series on Graph Transformation Theory and Applications: Scientific Committee member (since 2020)
- VariVolution: International Workshop on Variability and Evolution of Software-Intensive Systems: Steering Committee member (2018 - 2024)
Conference Chairing and Organization
- 2024: International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS’24): General Chair
- 2021: International Conference on Graph Transformation (ICGT’21): Program Co-Chair
- 2020: International Conference on Graph Transformation (ICGT’20): Program Co-Chair
- 2019: International Workshop on Software Engineering for Science (SE4Science) at ICSE’19: Co-Organizer
- 2019: Dagstuhl Research Seminar on “Software Evolution in Time and Space: Unifying Version and Variability Management” (No. 58-0118): Co-Organizer
- 2019: International Systems and Software Product Line Conference: Challenge Track Co-Chair
- 2018: HUB-KCL Research Workshop on “Search-Based Model Engineering”: Co-Organizer
- 2018: GI-Fachtagung Modellierung: Tutorial Co-Chair
- 2018: International Systems and Software Product Line Conference: Challenge Track Co-Chair
- 2017: International Workshop on Graphs as Models (GaM) at ETAPS’17: Co-Organizer
Program Committee Memberships (Selected)
- ICSE: International Conference on Software Engineering: 2026, 2025
- ICSE-NIER: International Conference on Software Engineering, New Ideas and Emerging Results Track: 2022
- ASE: International Conference on Automated Software Engineering: 2021, 2020, 2019
- FSE: International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Demo Track: 2023
- ICSME International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution: 2025
- ICST: International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation: 2025
- MoDELS: International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: 2023, 2022
- MoDELS-WS: International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, Workshop Track: 2024
- EASE: International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering: 2025, 2023
- SEAMS: International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems: 2025, 2024
- SPLC: International Systems and Software Product Line Conference: 2025, 2024, 2023, 2020, 2019
- ICGT: International Conference on Graph Transformation: 2022
- ICMT: International Conference on Model Transformation: 2019, 2018, 2017
- SCAM: International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation: 2023, 2022
- VaMoS: International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems: 2025, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018
- QUATIC: International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, Model-Driven Methods Track: 2021, 2020
- ICCS: International Conference on Computational Science, Software Engineering 4 Science Track: 2021, 2020
- SE GI: Fachtagung Software Engineering: 2024, 2023
- SE-SRC: GI Fachtagung Software Engineering, Student Research Competition: 2023
- MET: International Workshop on Metamorphic Testing: 2024
- VariVolution: International Workshop on Variability and Evolution of Software-intensive Systems: 2020, 2019
- SE4eScience: International Workshop on Software Engineering for eScience: 2022
- SE4Science: International Workshop on Software Engineering for Computational Science: 2022
- ToCaMS: International Workshop on Testing of Configurable and Multi-variant Systems: 2020
Regular Journal Reviews (Selected)
- IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
- IEEE Transactions on Big Data
- IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
- ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
- Journal on Empirical Software Engineering (Springer)
- Automated Software Engineering (Springer)
- Software and Systems Modeling (Springer)
- Journal of Systems and Software (Elsevier)
- Science of Computer Programming (Elsevier)
- Journal of Object Technology
- Information and Software Technology (Elsevier)
- Journal of Systems Architecture (Elsevier)
- Journal of Computer Languages (Elsevier)
- IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering
- Journal of Computational Science (Elsevier)
- Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (Wiley)
- Journal of Software: Practice and Experience (Wiley)
- Communications of the ACM
- IEEE Access