Mourning the death of Matthias Riebisch
11 January 2023, by SWK team
With great sadness, we report the loss of Matthias Riebisch, who passed away on January 11th, 2023.
With great sadness, we report the loss of Matthias Riebisch, who passed away on January 11th, 2023.
Matthias Riebisch led the research group on Software Engineering and Construction Methods at the Department of Informatics, Universität Hamburg, since 2012. Prior, he was at Technische Universität Ilmenau. His research focused on software architecture, reengineering, and modeling to enable change and evolution in complex software systems.
He was active within Universität Hamburg and in many regional, national, and global communities, in particular, the groups Software Architectures (FG ARC) and Modeling (QFAM) in the German Informatics Society (GI). In recent years, he hosted the conferences ICSA 2019 and Modellierung 2022 in Hamburg.
A book of condolences is offered at the Department of Informatics (building A, first floor) for approx. two weeks starting January 16th, 2023. An online board is available at recocards.com (provided by Steffen Becker). Alternatively, condolences may be sent via email to Stephanie Schulte Hemming or by post to Universität Hamburg, Arbeitsbereich SWK, Vogt-Kölln-Str. 30, 22527 Hamburg, Germany.
His death is a tremendous loss to us and we will miss him dearly.