Ina
Schieferdecker
DE

Profile

Current Roles

Honorary and advisory positions

Career

2019–2023: Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Director-General "Research for Technological Sovereignty and Innovation", German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

During this period:

  • Chair of the Supervisory Board, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security (2019–2023)
  • Member of the Supervisory Board, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (2019–2023)
  • Member of the Supervisory Board, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) (2020–2023)
  • Co-Chair of the Helmholtz Research Field Information (2020–2023)
  • Representative of the Federal Administration at SPRIND (2020–2023)

2015–2019: Fraunhofer FOKUS and TU Berlin

Co-Director, Fraunhofer FOKUS (2015–2019).
Professor of Quality Engineering of Open Distributed Systems, Technische Universität Berlin (2016–2019).

  • Co-Founding Director, Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society (2017–2019)
  • Principal Investigator, Einstein Center Digital Future (2017–2019)
  • Member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU), contributing to the flagship report "Towards Our Common Digital Future" (2016–2019)
  • Steering Board Member, Science Platform Sustainability 2030 (2017–2019)
  • Member of the Board for R&D, Technologiestiftung Berlin (2018–2019)
  • Member of the High-Tech Forum (2018–2019)

2011–2014: Fraunhofer FOKUS und Freie Universität Berlin

Professor of Model-Driven Engineering and Quality Assurance of Software-Based Systems, Freie Universität Berlin.

2003–2011: Fraunhofer FOKUS und TU Berlin

Professor of Design and Testing of Communication-Based Systems, Technische Universität Berlin.

1996–2003: Fraunhofer FOKUS, vormals GMD FOKUS

Head of the competence centres "Testing, Interoperability and Performance" (1996–2005) and "Modeling and Testing" (2005–2013).

Entrepreneurship

  • Co-Founder and CEO, Testing Technologies IST GmbH (2000–2006)
  • Co-Founder, Ingrano Solutions GmbH (2014)

Standardisation

  • Co-Author, ISTQB Expert Level Test Management and Expert Level Improving the Test Process (since 2025)
  • Working Group Member, ASQF Certified Professional for IoT (2017–2019)
  • Initiator and Author, ISTQB Advanced Level Syllabus Test Automation Engineer (2013–2016)
  • Co-Initiator of VHPready at the VHPready Forum (2014–2016)
  • Author of the curriculum of the TTCN-3 Certificate at the German Testing Board (2006–2010)
  • Initiator of the OMG UML Testing Profile (2001–2006)
  • Rapporteur for TTCN-3 at ETSI (1998–2014)
  • Associate Rapporteur for Message Sequence Chart (MSC) at ITU-T Study Group 10 (1998–2004)
  • Working Group Member for ATM Test Suites at the ATM Forum (1995–1998)

Details: Standard Contributions

Research Stays

  • International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Berkeley (1996)
  • CRIM, Montréal (2001)
  • University of Oslo (2004–2006)
  • Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, with project collaboration at Griffith University (2009–2011)

Education

  • Dr.-Ing., Technische Universität Berlin, 1993.
    Thesis: "Performance-Oriented Specification of Communication Protocols and Verification of Deterministic Bounds of Their QoS Characteristics"
  • Diplom in Mathematical Computer Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 1990.

Awards

  • Deutscher Preis für Software-Qualität / German Prize for Software Quality (2021)
  • Most Influential Paper Award at IEEE ICST (2019), for "Testing Embedded Real-Time Systems with TTCN-3"
  • EUREKA Innovation Award (2016), DIAMONDS project
  • ITEA Exhibition Awards (2009, 2012, 2013) and ITEA Achievement Award (2005)
  • Alfried-Krupp-Förderpreis für junge Hochschullehrer (2004)
  • Best Paper Awards: TestCom (2003), eTeleMed (2010)
  • Joachim Tiburtius Award (1991)

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