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Research Group Leader

Christina von Flach

I am a Professor at the Institute of Computing of the Federal University of Bahia since 1990. I hold a PhD degree in Computer Science from the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2004), supervised by Prof. Carlos Lucena. In 2019, I took a sabbatical leave at Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2019, I took a sabbatical leave at Faculty of Computer Science, University of Namur, Belgium. Currently, I am on a sabbatical leave at Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil.

Research Interests

  • Socio-technical aspects of open source software ecosystems
  • Software evolution
  • Software architecture
  • Research software sustainability
  • Software engineering education
  • Computing education
  • Open Science

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2004)
  • M.Sc. in Computer Science, State University of Campinas, Brazil (1992)
  • B.Sc. in Computer Science, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil (1987)

Current Research

Currently I am investigating the role of research software and characteristics of its ecosystem in the context of the open scientific ecoystem.

Publications