Oscar Nierstrasz

Oscar Marius Nierstrasz
Nierstrasz in 2008
Born
Oscar Marius Nierstrasz

(1957-10-15) October 15, 1957 (age 67)
Laren, the Netherlands
CitizenshipCanada, Switzerland and Italy
Alma materUniversity of Toronto
Known forObject-Oriented Reengineering Patterns, Pharo by Example
AwardsDahl–Nygaard Prize
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science, Programming languages, Object-oriented software design
InstitutionsUniversity of Toronto, Université de Genève, University of Berne
Doctoral advisorD. Tsichritzis

Oscar Marius Nierstrasz (born (1957-10-15)October 15, 1957) is a professor at the Computer Science Institute (IAM) at the University of Berne, and a specialist in software engineering and programming languages. He is active in the field of programming languages and mechanisms to support the flexible composition of high-level, component-based abstractions, tools and environments to support the understanding, analysis and transformation of software systems to more flexible, component-based designs,[1] secure software engineering, and requirement engineering to support stakeholders and developers to have moldable and clear requirements. He has led the Software Composition Group at the University of Berne since 1994 to date (December 2011).[2]

  1. ^ Introduction to Oscar Nierstrasz as a keynote speaker at the European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC/FSE 2005): [1]
  2. ^ http://scg.unibe.ch/download/oncv/oncv.pdf [bare URL PDF]