Prof. Claes Wohlin

Claes Wohlin is Professor of Software Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden. He has served as Pro Vice Chancellor for six years and Dean of Undergraduate and Graduate Education at Blekinge Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Blekinge Institute of Technology in 2000 he held professor chairs at Lund and Linköping Universities. He has held a Visiting Professor position at Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg from 2005 to 2008. From 2009, he is a professorial visiting fellow at University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

Professor Claes Wohlin received a Ph.D. degree in Communication Systems from Lund University in 1991. His research interests include empirical methods in software engineering, software metrics, software quality, requirements engineering and systematic learning and improvement in software engineering.

Claes Wohlin is the principal author of the book Experimentation in Software Engineering: An Introduction (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000). He has published more than 180 articles internationally.

Since January 2008, Professor Wohlin is Editor-in-Chief of the journal of Information and Software Technology, which is published by Elsevier, and he has been the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal since 2001. He is on three other editorial boards: Empirical Software Engineering: An International Journal, Software Quality Journal and Requirements Engineering Journal.

Claes Wohlin was the recipient of the Telenor Nordic Research Prize in 2004 for his achievements in software engineering and improvement of reliability for telecommunication systems.