Tom Mens

Tom Mens obtained the degrees of Licentiate in Mathematics in 1992, Advanced Master in Computer Science in 1993 and PhD in Science in 1999 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He was a teaching and research assistant at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel until September 1999. After that, he was a postdoctoral fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders (FWO) for three years. In October 2003 he became a lecturer at the Université de Mons, where he founded and directs a research lab on software engineering. Since November 2008 he is full professor.
His main research interest lies in the underlying foundations of, and tool support for, developing and evolving software. He published numerous peer-reviewed articles on this research topic in international journals and conferences. He has been co-organiser, program committee member and reviewer of numerous international symposia and workshops on software engineering. He has been involved in several interuniversity research projects and networks, and is founder and director of the ERCIM Working Group on Software Evolution. In 2008 he co-edited the Springer book “Software Evolution” with S. Demeyer.

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