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About me

Portrait photo of Stephan Druskat.

I am a researcher in computer science at the Institute of Software Technology of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the Department of Computer Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI).

In the past I have worked as a Research Software Engineer in linguistics and the digital humanities projects, and as Managing Editor at Wiley-Blackwell.

Figure 2 from my paper https://doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2019.2952840, showing a citation graph that includes software versions as citable entities.

Research interests

  • Research software sustainability
  • Research software citation & publication
  • Software metadata
  • Empirical software engineering
  • Evidence-based software engineering
  • Integrated systemic research software intelligence (ISRSI)

For my PhD, I'm developing a way to measure the impact of dependencies on research software, to enable transitive credit and make hidden but important research dependencies more visible.

Education

I received my Magister Artium (MA) in English Philology (major), Modern German Literature, and General and German Linguistics (minor) from the Free University Berlin in 2010.

Personal

I live in Berlin, Germany, with my partner and our three kids.