Service

I have listed some highlights. For a full list of service activities please see the CV page.

Editorship

• I am (co-)Editor in Chief of the Journal of Systems and Software.
• I am an Associate Editor of IEEE Software.

Board

• I am a Vice-chair of the Dutch Software Engineering Association (VERSEN).
• I served in the Scientific Advisory Board for Informatics of the Lorentz Center, University of Leiden (Jan. 2020 – Dec. 2024).

Program chair

• Program co-chair: 38th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICMSE 2022), 3-7 October, 2022, Limassol, Cyprus
• Program co-chair of the Second International Conference on Technical Debt (Tech Debt), May 26-27, 2019, Montreal, Canada.
• Program co-chair of the International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA 2019), March 25 – 29 2019, Hamburg, Germany.
• Program Chair of the 8th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2014) Vienna, Austria, August 25-29, 2014.
• Program chair of the 16th European Pattern Languages of Programming (EuroPLoP) 2011, July 13-17, 2011, Irsee, Germany.

Track chair

• Virtualization Co-chair: IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2027), Dublin, Ireland.
• Co-chair: Technical Briefings track, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2026), April 12-18, 2026, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Tutorials Track, ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2025), June 23-27, 2025, Trondheim, Norway.
• Virtualization Co-chair: The ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2020), Fri 6 - Mon 16 November 2020 Sacramento, California, United States

Organization

• Initiator and Co-Organizer: International Software Architecture PhD School (iSAPS), Lorentz Center, the Netherlands (2017-present).
• Co-organizer and Science Track Lead: First and Second National Congress on Autonomous Systems 2025 and 2026, Drachten, the Netherlands.
• Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop on “Reframing Technical Debt”, 4-8 November 2024, Dagstuhl, Germany.
• Dagstuhl Seminar 16162 on Managing Technical Debt in Software Engineering, Dagstuhl, Germany, April 17 – 22 , 2016.

Steering Committees

• European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA), 2013-present (chair since November 2023).
• International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA), 2018-present.
• International Conference on Technical Debt (Tech Debt), 2015-present.

Academic Service

• Scientific Director, Engineering Doctorate on Autonomous Systems, University of Groningen (Sep 2023 – present)
• Board of the Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen (June 2018 – May 2024, vice-chair since June 2020)
• Head of the department for Computer Science (June 2018 – May 2020)

Membership

• I am member of the International Software Engineering Research Network – ISERN.

• I am a member of ICT Research Platform Nederland (IPN), representing the University of Groningen.

• I am a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

• I am a member of ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT).