Dr. Axel Schmolitzky
Axel Schmolitzky is a research assistant at the Department of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, Germany. He is working in the Software Engineering Group of Christiane Floyd and Heinz Züllighoven. His research interests are in the area of languages and tools for object-oriented software engineering.
He is also working as a consultant for C1 Workplace Solutions (C1 WPS), a company that developed the JWAM framework for Java applications based on the Tools & Materials approach.
He holds a Ph.D. (first class) in Computer Science of the University of Ulm, Germany (1999). After he had finished his Ph.D. he went to Australia for a one-year post-doctoral scholarship, fully funded by the DAAD (the German Acadamic Exchange Service).
In Australia he was working in the Blue research group of John Rosenberg and Michael Kölling and took part in the implementation of BlueJ, the interactive teaching environment for Java.
He earned his Dipl.-Inform. degree in Computer Science from the University of Bremen in 1993.
Research Interest
Current research interests include
- software engineering education & training
- visualization of object-oriented design
- object-oriented language design
- agile methodologies
- software architecture
- object-oriented framework development