Maria Christakis to join MPI-SWS as tenure-track faculty

Maria Christakis joins the institute as a tenure-track faculty member, effective Oct 16, 2017. Maria’s goal is to develop theoretical foundations and practical tools for building more reliable and usable software and increasing developer productivity. She is mostly interested in software engineering, programming languages, and formal methods. Maria particularly likes investigating topics in automatic test generation, software verification, program analysis, and empirical software engineering. Her tools and techniques explore novel ways of writing, specifying, verifying, testing, and debugging programs in order to make them more robust while at the same time improving the user experience.

Maria joins MPI-SWS from the University of Kent, England, where she is a Lecturer at the School of Computing. She was previously a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research Redmond. Maria received her Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science of ETH Zurich and was awarded with the ETH medal and the EAPLS Best PhD Dissertation Award. She completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece.