Welcome

My name is Jil Klünder. I am a professor for software engineering and data science at University of Applied Sciences | FHDW Hannover.
On the following pages, I present an overview of my research interests, teaching activities and similar.

About me

Jil Klünder

Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences | FHDW Hannover.

Academic Education

10/2015 - 02/2019: PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Computer Science at Leibniz University Hannover
04/2014 - 09/2015: Master of Science in Mathematics at Leibniz University Hannover
10/2011 - 06/2014: Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at Leibniz University Hannover

Current and Previous Positions

since 03/2025: Professor for Software Engineering and Data Science at the University of Applied Sciences | FHDW Hannover
10/2015 - 02/2025: Research Associate at the Software Engineering Group at Leibniz University Hannover
08/2013 - 09/2015: (Under-)Graduate Assistant at Leibniz University Hannover

Trainings (Selected Items)

Course for Higher Education Didactics at Leibniz University Hannover
several courses on project management, funding and writing research proposals

Awards (Selected Items)

  • 2023: Best Paper Award at the International Symposium on Empirical Software Enginee- ring and Measurement 2023 for the paper Divide and Conquer the EmpiRE: A Community-Maintainable Knowledge Graph of Empirical Research in Requirements Engineering
  • 2023: Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Software and Systems Processes 2023 for the paper Using GUI Test Videos to Obtain Stakeholders’ Feedback
  • 2023: Distinguished Reviewer Award von der International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering 2023
  • 2021: IEEE Software Best Industry Experience Award at the Joint International Conference on Software and Systems Process and the International Conference on Global Software Engineering 2021 for the paper Towards Shaping the Software Lifecycle with Methods and Practices
  • 2020: Leibniz Young Investigator Grant (funding scheme for postdoctoral researchers awarded by the Leibniz University Hannover)
  • 2019: Advancement Award by the Stiftung NiedersachsenMetall
  • 2019: ACM Sigsoft Distinguished Paper Award at the International Conference on Software and Systems Process 2019 for the paper What are Hybrid Development Methods Made Of? An Evidence-based Characterization
  • 2012 and 2016: Scholarships (Stratmann Stiftung)

Research

My research vision is to support modern software development teams taking into account the manifold factors influencing successful projects. This includes, but is not limited to the various factors introduced by the people involved in the process, as well as the chosen development process with its underlying methods and practices.

  • Information flow and collaboration in development teams are mandatory for project success. However, there are often interpersonal problems complicating the communication and collaboration. This, in turn, can for example lead to ill-communicated requirements causing dissatisfied customers.
  • Communication and interactions in meetings of development teams are often not as effective as they might be. We developed a procedure to uncover inappropriate behavior in meetings to increase the return on investment of meetings which increases the motivation of developers.
  • Content-related analysis of communication can help to detect persons that loose focus in, for example, project-related group chats. In addition, it is possible to gain insights into the mood in the development team by analyzing the emotionality, formality and the like in written communication.
  • Forecasting of behavior in development teams can reduce the risk for project failure due to interpersonal problems. We use machine learning and neural networks for these analyses.
  • Social Network Analysis and Graph Theory can be used to analyze team structures on both fine and coarse grained levels. It is possible to build networks based on social aspects such as communication or collaboration, as well as on technical aspects such as commits or source code.
  • Agile and hybrid software development processes are often tailored to the specific needs of a company or a project. However, a concrete schema to construct an appropriate development process is still missing.
  • Comprehensibility of machine learning algorithms is highly important to interpret the results correctly. Considering a neural network or the like as black box decreases the trust in the results as they are not reliable.

This research was and is part of interdisciplinary and/or international research projects:

  • HELENA (ongoing): Hybrid dEveLopmENt Approaches in software systems development
  • ComContA (2020-2022): Content-related Analysis of Communication in Groupchats of Software Development Teams
  • TeamDynamics (2017-2020): Interpreting communication structures in software teams with the help of forecasting models
  • TeamFLOW (2015-2017): Interaction and Communication in Distributed Software Teams

Selected Publications

  • Marc Herrmann, Martin Obaidi, Jil Klünder: Different and similar perceptions of communication among software developers, In Information and Software Technology, Information and Software Technology, 2025.
  • Oliver Karras, Felix Wernlein, Jil Klünder, Sören Auer: Divide and Conquer the EmpiRE: A Community-Maintainable Knowledge Graph of Empirical Research in Requirements Engineering. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement. IEEE, 2023.
  • Jil Klünder, Oliver Karras: Meetings and Mood–Related or Not? Insights from Student Software Projects. In Proceedings of the 16th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2022.
  • Jil Klünder, Felix Trommer, Nils Prenner: How agile coaches create an agile mindset in development teams: Insights from an interview study. In Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, 34(12), e2491, 2022.
  • Marc Herrmann, Martin Obaidi, Larissa Chazette, Jil Klünder: On the subjectivity of emotions in software projects: How reliable are pre-labeled data sets for sentiment analysis?. In Journal of Systems and Software, 193, 111448, 2022., In Proceedings of the Workshop on Research and Practice Challenges for Engineering Interactive Systems while Integrating Multiple Stakeholders Viewpoints, 2019.
  • Marco Kuhrmann, Jürgen Münch, Jil Klünder: Hacking or Engineering? Towards an Extended Entrepreneurial Software Engineering Model. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software and System Processes, IEEE, 2022.

Please find here a complete list of my publications. Preprints are often available. In case you cannot access a paper, please send me an email. I am happy to share the author versions with you.

Invited Talks (Selection)

  • 02/2019: Science Slam @ MNU-Bildungskongress - Getting in Touch with Pi(e)
  • 02/2018: Science Slam @ Jugend forscht - Von Mathe zu Informatik
  • 08/2017: Talk @ Agile Community - Der Mensch im agilen Prozess
  • 08/2017: Talk @ Agile Community - Der Einfluss von Kommunikation auf den Projekterfolg
  • 06/2015: Women-MINT-Slam @ IdeenEXPO - Warum Mathematiker nicht rechnen

Research Profiles

Further information on my research activities is presented in the different research profiles:

Teaching

In my lectures, I try to achieve a good interaction of theory and practice. In most cases, I extend the lectures' theoretical content with talks from practitioners or with anecdotes from practice. The topics are related to agile (and hybrid) software processes both in lectures and practical lab exercises.

So far, I gave lectures on the following topics:

  • Lecture on Socio-technical Software Engineering (including exercises)
  • Lecture on Software Process Engineering (including exercises)
  • Lecture on Software Quality (including exercises)
  • Lab on Agile Software Development
  • Lab on Empirical Software Engineering
  • Lab on App Development
  • Seminar on Methods of Empirical Software Engineering

Professional Activities

Reviewing Tasks (Selection)

Journals

  • Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE
  • Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, ACM
  • Empirical Software Enginnering, Springer Nature
  • Requirements Engineering, Springer
  • Information and Software Technology, Elsevier
  • Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier
  • IEEE Software, IEEE
  • Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, Wiley

International Conferences and Workshops

  • International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
  • International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
  • International Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering
  • International Conference on Software and System Process
  • IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering
  • International Conference on on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement

Organizing Tasks (Selection)

  • PROFES 2024: Program Co-Chair
  • ICSSP 2024: Program Co-Chair
  • CSEE&T 2024: Workshop Chair
  • HCSE 2022: Demos and Posters Co-Chair
  • PROFES2018: Web Chair and Proceedings Chair
  • SE17: Web Chair

Contact

Please feel free to contact me via e-mail

jil.kluender[at]fhdw[dot]de