CV

Katharina Großer is post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Software Technology (IST) within the Faculty for Computer Science at the University of Koblenz, from which she also holds a PhD in computer science (Dr.rer.nat. "summa cum laude"). Her PhD project on ontology supported requirements engineering was part of the NPI Programme of the European Space Agency (ESA), where she prior completed a six-month internship at the technology research center ESTEC. She graduated with a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Computational Visualistics from University of Koblenz-Landau. Her Master’s thesis was awarded the AFCEA price. Her research focuses on ontology-supported requirements engineering, traceability, and requirement text quality.

Short CV

  • since 2025 Post-Doctoral Researcher at RGSE, University of Koblenz

  • 2025 PhD in Computer Science, University of Koblenz (Dr.rer.nat. with "summa cum laude")

  • 2023-2025 Research Associate at RGSE, University of Koblenz

  • 2017/2018 2x three-month guest researcher at European Space Agency (ESA),
    Software and Systems Division (TEC-SW), European Space Research and Technology Center (ESTEC)

  • 2015-2022 Research Associate at RGSE, University of Koblenz-Landau

  • 2015 six-month Internship at European Space Agency (ESA),
    Software and Systems Division (TEC-SW), European Space Research and Technology Center (ESTEC)

  • 2012-2015 Master Programme Computational Visualistics, University of Koblenz-Landau
    (M.Sc. with high distinction)

  • 2009-2012 Bachelor Programme Computational Visualistics, University of Koblenz-Landau (B.Sc.)

  • 2009-2015 Student Worker naujokat-edv

  • 2009 Bilingual German/French Abitur/Baccalaureat (Abi-Bac)
    Bertha-von-Suttner Gymnasium Andernach

Grants & Awards

Reviewing & Memberships

Service for Conferences

  • RE 2026, August 17-21 2026, Montreal, Canada (Program Committee Member Artifacts-track)
  • REFSQ 2026, March 23-26 2026, Poznań, Poland (Open Science Co-Chair, RE-OpenS workshop Co-Chair)
  • SAC 2026, March 23-27 2026, Thessaloniki, Greece, (Program Committee Member in DSTDS track)
  • RE 2025, September 1-5 2025, Valencia, Spain (Program Committee Member Artifacts-track)
  • SAC 2025, March 31-April 4 2025, Sicily, Italy, (Program Committee Member in DSTDS track)
  • RE 2024, June 24-28 2024, Reykjavik, Iceland, (Program Committee Member in Artifacts-track)
  • RE 2023, September 4-8 2023, Hannover, Germany (Program Committee Member in Artifacts-track)
  • REFSQ 2022, March 21-24 2022, Birmingham, United Kingdom (Discussant)
  • SEAA 2019, August 28-30 2019, Kallithea, Chalkidiki, Greece (Sub-reviewer)
  • ICMT 2019, July 15 - 19 2019, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (Sub-reviewer)
  • Sicherheit 2018, April 25-27 2018, Konstanz, Germany (Sub-reviewer)