Below is a summary of my activities in the research community including organising roles in scientific, industrial, and public events as well as association memberships. See also my reviewer profile at publons for details on reviews for journals and conferences.
Overview of Recent Memberships and Activities
Editorial Board Memberships
- Empirical Software Engineering Journal (EMSE): Editor and Reproducibility & Open Science co-chair
- Journal of Systems and Software (JSS): Editor and In Practice co-chair
- Information and Software Technology Journal (IST): Editorial board member
Chairing Roles in Academic Events
- General co-Chair International Empirical Software Engineering International Week with ESEM 2026
- Open Science co-Chair 33rd International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2027)
- Education and Training track co-Chair 48th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2026)
PC Memberships
- 31st International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2027)
- 35th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2027)
- 4th International Workshop on Methodological Issues with Empirical Studies in Software Engineering (WSESE 2027)
Full Lists of Roles and Memberships
Editorial Board Memberships
- Journal of Systems and Software (JSS): Editorial Board member and In Practice co-chair, since 2019
- Information and Software Technology Journal (IST): Editorial Board member, 2019 – 2026
- Empirical Software Engineering Journal (EMSE): Editorial Board member and Reproducibility & Open Science co-chair, since 2018
Guest Journal Editorials and further Tasks
- Guest Editor (with Katia Romero Felizardo, Martin Shepperd, and Emily Winter): Meta-Science in Software Engineering. In: Frontiers in Computer Science
- Guest Editor (with Sallam Abualhaija, Michael Unterkalmsteiner): Regulatory Compliance in Software Engineering. In: Information and Software Technology
- Guest Editor (with Ana Moreira): Special Issue on 30th International Working Conference on Requirement Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality. In: Information and Software Technology Journal
- Guest Editor (with Niklas Lavesson, Johannes Kross, Marcos Kalinowski): AI for Product Management and Evolution in Software-intensive Products and Services. In: Frontiers in AI in Business, 2022
- Guest Editor (with Maria Paasivaara, Viktoria Stray, Rashina Hoda, and Valentina Lenarduzzi): Special Issue on 21st International Conference on Agile Software Development. In: Information and Software Technology Journal (IST), 2020
- Guest Editor (with Tim Menzies): Special Issue on Special Issue on Patterns and Anti-Patterns of Replication and Reproduction in Software Engineering. In: Empirical Software Engineering Journal, 2019
- Guest Editor (with Nan Niu): Special Issue on Just-in-Time Requirements Engineering for Software Integration (JIT RE 2016/2017). In: Journal of Industrial Information Integration, 2019
- Social Networking (2016-2019): Information and Software Technology Journal (IST)
Editorial Tasks for Conferences and Workshops (Edited Proceedings)
- R. Feldt, M. Paasivaara, D. Mendez, S. Wagner, M. Muńoz
20th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2026), Dagtuhl LIPIcs, Volume 294 (2026) -
R. Matulevičius, D. Mendez.CAiSE 2023 Doctoral Consortium. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol-3407, 2023
- D. Mendez, D. Winkler, J. Kross, S. Biffl, J. Bergsmann.
Software Quality Days: Software Quality. Higher Software Quality through Zero Waste Development, Springer (2023) - D. Mendez, M. Wimmer, D. Winkler, S. Biffl, J. Bergsmann.
Software Quality Days: Software Quality. What‘s The Next Big Thing in Software Engineering and Quality?, Springer (2022) -
D. Winkler, S. Biffl, D. Mendez, M. Wimmer, J. Bergsmann.
Software Quality Days: Software Quality. Future Perspectives on Software Engineering Quality, Springer (2021) - D. Winkler, S. Biffl, D. Mendez.
Software Quality Days: Software Quality. Quality Intelligence in Software and Systems Engineering, Springer (2020) - M. Oivo, D. Mendez Fernandez, A. Mockus.
International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, ACM/IEEE (2018) - I. Schaefer, D. Karagiannis, A. Vogelsang and D. Mendez Fernandez.
Modellierung 2018, Lecture Notes in Informatics (2018) - M. Felderer, D. Mendez Fernandez, B. Turhan, M. Kalinowski, F. Sarro, and D. Winkler.
International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, Springer (2017) - P. Diebold, D. Mendez Fernandez and D. Smite.
Summary of the 1st International Workshop on Impact of Agile Practices, Workshop summary, co-located at ICSSP, Tallinn, Estonia (2015) - M. Kuhrmann, D. Mendez Fernandez, O. Linsen and A. Knapp.
Modellierung von Vorgehensmodellen – Paradigmen, Sprachen, Tools, Lecture Notes in Informatics (2013) - D. Mendez Fernandez and F. Deißenböck.
Effective Use of Code Analysis Tools. Workshop Editorial Hot Spots der Software-Entwicklung, TU Munich (2012)
Steering / Organising Committee
- ESEM: International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (2018-2022, 2025-2027)
- International Software Engineering Research Network (2024-2029)
- Software Quality Days (since 2022)
-
GI specialist group Measurement and Data Science (2022-2025)
- REFSQ: International Working Conference on Requirement Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (2022-2028)
- Co-founding chairman to the non-profit society Pint of Science Germany e.V. (2019-2021)
General Organising Committee
- General co-Chair International Empirical Software Engineering International Week with ESEM 2026
Programme Committee Chair
Full paper tracks
- 30th International Working Conference on Requirement Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2024)
- 15th Software Quality Days (SWQD 2023)
- 12th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2018)
- 18th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2017)
Other tracks
- Education and Training track co-Chair 48th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2026)
- Track co-chair of the Human-Centred Design for Digital Innovations mini track at HICCS 2022
- Track co-chair of the Human-Centred Design for Digital Innovations mini track at HICCS 2021
- Scientific Track co-chair of the 14th Software Quality Days (SWQ 2021)
- Scientific Track co-chair of the 13th Software Quality Days (SWQ 2020)
- Artifact Evaluation co-chair of the 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2021)
- Empirical Studies co-chair of the 21st International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP 2020)
- Research Method co-chair of the Software Engineering Conference 2020 (national conference of the German Informatics Society)
- Journal-First Chair of the 20th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2019)
- RE@Next! track of the 26th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2018)
- Modellierung 2018 – industry track (national conference of the German Informatics Society)
Doctoral Symposiums, Tutorials, and Workshops Chair
- Workshop and Tutorials co-Chair 27th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2026)
- Summer School on Empirical Research Methods in Software Engineering and Informatics (ERMSEI 2023)
- Doctoral Symposium co-chair, 33rd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2023)
- 1st International Workshop on Quality Requirements in Agile Projects (QuaRAP 2018)
- 15th International Doctoral Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (IDoESE 2017)
- 2nd Just-in-Time Requirements Engineering Workshop (JIT RE 2017)
- 2nd International Workshop on the Impact of Agile Practices (ImpAct 2017)
- 14th International Advanced School on Empirical Software Engineering (IASESE 2016)
- 1st International Workshop on the Impact of Agile Practices at the International Conference on Software and System Processes 2015 (ICSSP 2015)
- 13th International Advanced School on Empirical Software Engineering (IASESE 2015)
- 12th International Advanced School on Empirical Software Engineering (IASESE 2014)
- 11th International Doctoral Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (IDoESE 2013)
- 1st Workshop on Modelling of Software Processes – Paradigms, Languages, Tools at the (German) Software Engineering Conference 2013
- Tutorial on Artefact-based Software Process Improvement as (German) Software Engineering Conference 2013
- Working session on The Requirements Engineering Body of Knowledge at the 21st International Conference on Requirements Engineering (RE 2013)
Communications and Social Networking Chair
- 28th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2020)
- 22nd Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering (CibSE 2019)
- 39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2017)
- 17th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2016)
- 9th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2015)
- 19th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2015)
- 16th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2015)
- 15th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2014)
Other Chairing Roles
- Open Science co-Chair 33rd International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2027)
- Panel co-Chair 33rd International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2025)
- Open Science co-Chair, 17th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2023)
- 35th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2027)
- 4th International Workshop on Methodological Issues with Empirical Studies in Software Engineering (WSESE 2027)
- 31st International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2027)
- 2nd International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Accountable and Conscious Human-centered AI (REACH-AI 2026)
- 1st International Workshop on Software Engineering for the GenAI Transformation (SEE-AIT 2026)
- 30th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2026)
- 34th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2026)
- Research Track
- Workshop Track
- 32nd International Working Conference on Requirement Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2026)
– Education and Training Track - 26th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2025) – Research Track
- 19th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2025) – Research Track
- 33rd IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference(RE 2025)
- Posters and Tool Demos Track
- Industry Innovation Track
- 1st International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Accountable and Conscious Human-centered AI (REACH AI 25), co-located with RE 2025
- 29th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2025)
- Research Track
- Posters and Visions Track
- 31st International Working Conference on Requirement Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2025)
- Technology and Software Development-Centred Design for Digital Innovations at HICCS 2025
- 25th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2024)
- Young Scientists and Early-Stage Research in Data Science Workshop 2024 (YSDS 2024)
- 18th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2024)
- Research Track
- Industry Government and Communities Track
- International Doctoral Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, co-located with ESEM 2024
- 11th International Workshop on Creativity in Requirements Engineering (CreaRE 2024), co-located with REFSQ 2024
- 9th Workshop on Empirical Requirements Engineering (EmpiRE 2024), co-located with RE 2024
- 1st International Workshop on Methodological Issues with Empirical Studies in Software Engineering (WSESE 2024), co-located with ICSE 2024
- 32nd International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2024) – RE@Next! track
- 17th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2023) – Emerging Results, Vision and Reflection Papers Track
- 35th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2023)
- 27th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2023) – Doctoral Symposium
- 29th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2023)
- Research Track
- Doctoral Symposium
- 31st International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2023)
- 16th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2022)
- 30th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2022)
- 28th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2022)
- 1st International Workshop on Recruiting Participants for Empirical Software Engineering (RoPES 2022)
- 15th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2021)
- 29th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2021)
- 14th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2020)
- ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2020)
- 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2020) — Artefact Evaluation track
- 28th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2020) – RE@Next! track
- Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2020) – Registered Reports
- Software Engineering 2020 (SE20)
- 35th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2020)
- 13th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2019)
- Full Paper track
- Emerging Results and Vision Papers
- 20th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2019)
- Recognizing and Rewarding Open Science in Software Engineering (ROSE Festival), co-located with ICSE 2019
- 23rd International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2019)
- 27th International Conference on Requirements Engineering (RE 2019)
- Full Paper track
- Posters and Tool Demo track
- Artefact Evaluation and ROSE festival
- 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2019)
- 20th International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP 2019)
- 25th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality – Posters and Tools Demo track (REFSQ 2019)
- 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering (NLP4RE 2019)
- 22nd Ibero-American Conference of Software Engineering (CibSE 2019) – Experimental Software Engineering track
- Software Quality Days 2019 – 8th scientific program on research and industry experience (SWQ 2019)
- 27th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2019) – Managing Information Technology Projects in a Digital World
- 49th Annual Conference Informatik (of the German Informatics Society)
- Recognizing and Rewarding Open Science in Software Engineering (ROSE Festival), co-located with ESEC/FSE 2018
- 34th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution – NIER track (ICSME 2018)
- 18th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2018)
- 22nd International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2018)
- 12th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement – Journal-First Track (ESEM 2018)
- 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2018) – Technical Briefings
- 19th International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP 2018)
- 5th International Workshop on Evolving Security & Privacy Requirements Engineering (ESPRE 2018)
- 5th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Requirements Engineering (AIRE 2018)
- 1st International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering (NLP4RE 2018)
- 1st International Workshop on Methodological Issues with Empirical Studies involving Human Subject (WSESE 2018)
- 1st International Workshop on Software Qualities and their Dependencies (SQUADE 2018)
- 1st International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering (NLP4RE 2018)
- 26th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2018) – Posters and Demos track
- Software Quality Days 2018 – 7th scientific program on research and industry experience (SWQ 2018)
- 11th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE 2018)
- 1st International Workshop on Affective Computing for Requirements Engineering (AffectRE 2018)
- 21st Ibero-American Conference of Software Engineering (CibSE 2018) – Experimental Software Engineering track (ESELAW 2018)
- 11th Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2017)
- Research track
- Industry track
- 4th International Workshop on Evolving Security & Privacy Requirements Engineering (ESPRE 2017)
- 4th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Requirements Engineering (AIRE 2017)
- PhD Symposium at the 18th International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP 2017)
- 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2017)
- 21st International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2017)
- 6th IEEE International Workshop on Empirical Requirements Engineering (EmpiRE 2017)
- 10th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE 2017), co-located with ICSE 2017
- 20th Ibero-American Conference of Software Engineering (CibSE 2017), co-located with ICSE 2017
- Experimental Software Engineering track (ESELAW)
- Requirements Engineering track (WER)
- 17th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2016)
- 10th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2016)
- 14th International Doctoral Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (IDoESE 2016)
- 24th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2016)
- 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Requirements Engineering (AIRE 2016)
- 9th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE 2016)
- 1st International Workshop in Affective Software Engineering (WASE 2016)
- 19th Ibero-American Conference of Software Engineering (CibSE 2016) — Experimental Software Engineering track (ESELAW 2016)
- 19th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering (WER 2016)
- 20th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2016)
- 22nd International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2016) (Full paper and research methodology track)
- 16th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2015)
- 9th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2015)
- 23rd International Conference on Requirements Engineering: Posters and Demos (RE 2015)
- 19th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2015)
- 5th IEEE International Workshop on Empirical Requirements Engineering (EmpiRE 2015)
- International Symposium on Empirical Modeling (IARIA 2015)
- 18th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering (WER 2015)
- 12th International Doctoral Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (IDoESE 2014)
- 15th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2014)
- 4th IEEE International Workshop on Empirical Requirements Engineering (EmpiRE 2014)
- 18th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2014)
- 11th International Doctoral Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (IDoESE 2013)
- 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Empirical Requirements Engineering (EmpiRE 2013)
- 4th International Workshop on Leveraging Empirical Research Results for Software Business Success (EPIC 2013)
- 21st International Conference on Requirements Engineering: Posters and Demos (RE 2013)
- 17th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2013)
- 10th International Workshop on Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems (MSVVEIS 2012)
- ICST Workshop on Requirements and Validation, Verification & Testing (ReVVerT 2011)
- 9th International Workshop on Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems (MSVVEIS 2011)
Long-term organisation and board memberships with focus on disseminating scientific results within the practitioners’ community and the public in general.
- Pint of Science Germany e.V. Co-founder and Chairman – since 2018
- ZD.B Digital Breakfast talk series on various topics related to digitisation – since 2016
- Munich-based Meetup on Requirements Engineering meets Testing – since 2017
- Pint of Science Festival held in Munich (PoS) – 2016 and 2017
- German Requirements Night – 2016
- TUM Workshop Series Hot-Spots der Software-Entwicklung – 2008 – 2016
- Full Member of ISERN, since 2014
- Member of ACM and ACM SIGSOFT, since 2012
- Member of the German Informatics Society, since 2007
- Member of German association of university professors and lecturers (DHV), since 2012
- Associated member at the International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB e.V.), co-founder of working group IREB Research, 2017 – 2021
- Invited reviewer activities: I serve as invited reviewer for books (mainly Springer), various journals, including Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), Information and Software Technology (IST), and the Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), and various international conferences, including the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE).
- (until 2020) Member of the Scientific Advisory Board at ZD.B
- Collaboration stays: I’m frequent visiting scholar at: Technical University of Madrid, Spain, University of Twente, Netherlands, University of Stuttgart, Germany.
- Industry-related: I’m co-founder of sparced-labs and serve as advisor to qualityminds and Safe and Found.