Extended Institute Management,
Co-Head Business Development,
Program Manager Smart Farming
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Dörr

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Dörr holds the Chair of Digital Farming at the Rhineland-Palatinate University of Technology Kaiserslautern Landau (RPTU). He has also been a member of the extended institute management of Fraunhofer IESE in Kaiserslautern since 2020. He is responsible for the institute's research programs and has been head of the Agriculture and Food program at the institute since 2020. His work at RPTU and 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 head of the main department “Information Systems” and from 2005-2010 head of the department “Requirements and Usability Engineering”. He received his doctorate in 2010 on non-functional aspects of requirements specification. He studied computer science with a minor in electrical engineering at the University of Kaiserslautern. He has been working at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE since 2002. Jörg Dörr has extensive knowledge in the field of software and systems engineering, requirements engineering and data usage control. He is active in various 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 a lecturer at universities on topics including requirements engineering and agile methods, and since 2021 also on digital farming. Jörg Dörr has been 1st board member of the GIL (Gesellschaft für Informatik in der Land-, Forst- und Ernährungswirtschaft e.V.) since summer 2024 and is involved in the GI (Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.), was spokesman for the Requirements Engineering specialist group for several years and is a founding member of the GI regional group Kaiserslautern. He is also a member of the Competence Network Digitalization in Agriculture of the BMEL, a member of the Start-up Expert Advisory Board of the Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank, scientific spokesman of the Competence Network Digital Agriculture Bavaria, deputy spokesman of the Fraunhofer Alliance Food Industry and active in various national and international program committees.