A scientific mindset for software engineering in the AI era.
Associate Professor of Software Engineering at Aalborg University in Copenhagen. My research asks what the evidence actually says about how software gets built: how AI is changing the work, how people and teams shape delivery outcomes, and how the next generation of engineers should be taught.
Research rigour, practitioner relevance
I am a tenured Associate Professor of Software Engineering at Aalborg University in Copenhagen. My research uses empirical methods, including large-scale surveys, longitudinal studies, and structural equation modelling, to establish credible, reproducible findings about how software teams, tools, and organisations function.
The question that organises this work is practical: what does the evidence say, and what should an engineering leader or team do with it? More than sixty peer-reviewed publications later, all open access, I translate those findings into plain language, with the source attached.
That translation is the purpose of this site. Research maps the programme across its three pillars, Publications holds the complete open-access archive, and Teaching shows how the evidence shapes the classroom. For organisations, Advisory brings the findings to specific decisions, and the Software Insights newsletter examines one peer-reviewed study each week.
AI in Software Engineering
AI is changing software development. Whether it is changing it in the ways the conversation assumes is an empirical question.
People, Teams & Organisations
The most consequential variables in delivery outcomes are not technical. They are organisational, interpersonal, and psychological.
Education & the Next Engineer
How software engineers learn has received far less empirical attention than how they work. This research closes that gap.
AI4SE1DK: Human-Centred AI for Software Engineering
A 48-month national programme establishing Denmark as a global reference for trustworthy, human-centred adoption of AI in software engineering, closing the current adoption gap while strengthening the competitiveness of Danish software organisations and their workforce.
Sixty-plus papers, all open access.
Every peer-reviewed paper, grouped by year and filterable by topic and venue. Each entry carries a plain-language summary of what the study found and a citation ready to copy.
“Good research begins before the question.”
One peer-reviewed study, translated into practice, every week. Free.
Evidence in the classroom.
I teach bachelor, master, and PhD programmes at Aalborg University across software engineering, artificial intelligence, and research methodology, and supervise theses in each.
The research is there. Let’s put it to work.
Short diagnostics, embedded organisational audits, and ongoing advisory for engineering leaders.