Welcoming Prof. Dr. Welf Löwe to the Editorial Board of Software

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Welf Löwe has joined Software (ISSN 2674-113X) as an Editorial Board Member. 

Prof. Dr. Welf Löwe (http://welf.se/) is the head of research in Computer Science at Linnaeus University (Lnu, https://lnu.se/), Sweden. 

He studied computer science at TU Dresden, Germany, and received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from TH Karlsruhe, Germany, before he became a full professor at Lnu in 2002.

His research addresses software analysis and building technologies including Big Data and AI, quality assessment of software and technical documentation, design pattern detection and architecture recovery for software comprehension, context-aware composition and parallelization for software optimization, and garbage collection and pointer analysis as foundations. 

He is the founder and director of the Linnaeus university center for “Data Intensive Sciences and Applications” (DISA, https://lnu.se/en/disa), a research excellence center at Lnu. It focuses on research related to multidisciplinary Big Data and AI in engineering, sciences, and the humanities. He also directs an affiliated industry graduate school (DIA, https://lnu.se/en/dia) for applied research in these fields. 

He is a member and currently the secretary of the IFIP working group 2.4 "Software Implementation Technology".  

He is a co-founder of several companies that commercialize relevant research results including Softwerk (https://softwerk.se/) building advanced software systems and compilers, DueDive (https://duedive.com/) analyzing IT companies and their software, and Aimo (https://aimo-fit.com/) applying computer-vision-based movement analyses.