Extended Institute Management

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Dörr holds the chair of "Digital Farming" at RPTU in Kaiserslautern. Furthermore, he has been a member of the extended institute management of Fraunhofer IESE in Kaiserslautern since 2020. In this position, he is also leading the Agriculture and Food activities of the institute since 2020. His work at the RPTU as well as at Fraunhofer IESE focuses on software and systems engineering, especially for applications in digital farming. Jörg Dörr was Co-Head Business Development from 2018 to 2020. From 2010-2019, he was division head "Information Systems" and from 2005-2010 Head of the department "Requirements and Usability Engineering". He received his PhD in 2010 on non-functional aspects in requirements specification. He studied computer science with a minor in electrical engineering at the University of Kaiserslautern. Since 2002, he has been working at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE. Jörg Dörr has extensive knowledge in the areas of software and systems engineering, requirements engineering, and data usage control. He is active in diverse industries, with a focus on smart farming. He is the author of more than 150 academic and industry-related publications. Since 2006, he has been active as a lecturer on topics including requirements engineering and agile methods, and since 2021 also on digital farming at universities. Jörg Dörr is currently first chairman of the GIL (Gesellschaft für Informatik in der Land-, Forst- und Ernährungswirtschaft e.V: Society for Information Technology in Agriculture, Forestry, and Food Industries in Germany) and active in the GI (Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.: Society for Information Technology in Germany), was spokesman of the requirements engineering group for several years, and is a founding member of the GI Kaiserslautern regional group. Furthermore, he is a member of the BMLEH's (Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Regional Identity in Germany) Competence Network Digitalization in Agriculture, a member of the Start-up Expert Advisory Board of the “Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank”, scientific spokesperson of the Competence Network Digital Agriculture Bavaria, and active in various national and international program committees.