Best Performer and Teaching Awards 2024/2025

We congratulate David Jamnig BSc., who works as a study assistant in our Software Engineering Research Group, on receiving the Best Performer Award 2024/2025 and a Teaching Award in the category “Best Tutorium”.

Best Performer Awards

The Best Performer Award is given to the best students in the technical degree programs at the University of Klagenfurt. The ECTS credits and grades of all assessments of one academic year were taken into account to evaluate academic performance. David Jamnig performed best in the Master’s degree program “Informatics” in the academic year 2024/2025.

The University of Klagenfurt held the award ceremony on November 5, 2025, as part of the “University meets Industry: Talents for Carinthia” event. The prizes for the Best Performer Award winners, each amounting to 500 euros, were donated by the Förderverein Technische Fakultät (FTF) and the Faculty of Technical Sciences and presented by Michael Kollienz from Raiffeisenbank Kärnten and Chairman of the FTF, and Prof. Bernhard Rinner, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Technical Sciences.

Teaching Award

Moreover, the Teaching Award was given to David for his efforts in assisting students in his tutorials for example on Software Engineering. All Teaching Awards across different categories were presented to the winners at a celebratory ceremony on November 19, 2025.

We share the happiness with David on his achievements as we strongly value him as a member of our team.  Furthermore we are pleased to continue working with him.

More about the events and all winners:

https://www.aau.at/blog/best-performer-awards-roland-mittermeir-preis-und-dissertationspreis-der-fakultaet-fuer-technische-wissenschaften-2024-25/

https://www.aau.at/blog/lehrepreis-2025-universitaet-praemiert-hervorragende-lehrende/

Retrospective on ChangeDistiller

Martin Pinzger got invited by top ranked journal IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (IEEE TSE) to write a retrospective of their work on ChangeDistiller, published by this journal in 2007. This work was selected by IEEE as one of the most influential papers of IEEE TSE’s 4th decade. The retrospective is available here.

New Colleague @ SERG

Katharina Stengg

We are delighted to welcome our new colleague Katharina Stengg in the Department of Informatics Systems. Katharina has finished her Master in Informatics at the University of Klagenfurt recently. She started her work in the Software Engineering Research Group (SERG) in January 2025 as part of the SemImpact project. Katharina  strives to finish her doctoral study in the field of Software Engineering and will assist her colleagues in the SERG group.

Paper on Microservice API Evolution in Practice accepted by JSS

Our paper Microservice API Evolution in Practice: A Study on Strategies and Challenges by Alexander Lercher, Johann Glock, Christian Macho, and Martin Pinzger has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Systems and Software (JSS). The online version of the paper is available as open access.