Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heinz Züllighoven
Heinz Züllighoven, graduted in Mathematics and German Language and Literature, holds a PhD in Computer Science. Since October 1991 he is professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Hamburg and head of the attached Software Technology Centre. He is one of the original designers of the Tools & Materials approach to object-oriented application software and the Java framework JWAM, supporting this approach.
Since 2000, Heinz Züllighoven is also one of the managing directors of C1 Workplace Solutions Ltd. He is consulting professional software development projects in the area of object-oriented design, among which are several major companies in the finance and service sectors. Heinz Züllighoven is one of the leading authors of the object-oriented Tools & Materials Approach and has published a number of papers and books on various software engineering topics. An English construction handbook for the T&M approach has been published by Morgan Kaufmann in 2004.
Research Interests
Among his current research interests are agile object-oriented development strategies, migration processes and the architecture of large industrial interactive software systems. In addition, he and his co-researchers are further developing a light-weight modeling concept for business processes which is tool-supported.