Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sascha Müller-Feuerstein

Further responsibilities

• In charge of the branch of study "IT infrastructure" (part of the business informatics curriculum)
• Director of the Games Lab at the Ansbach University of Applied Sciences
  
• Director of the IKT-Forum at the Ansbach University of Applied Sciences
• Head of the Master of Science course "Applied Research and Development"
  
  

Research interests

• Development and architecture of computer games
• Gaming business models (ingame advertising, free to play, etc.)
• IT service management (ITIL, ISO20k, CobiT, etc.)
• Software engineering for mobile devices 
  
• Management of large and complex IT architectures
• Business process management and data integration (EAI, workflow management, etc.)
• Process based knowledge management
• Process (model) driven software development

Research activities

• Chair:
  Joint EDBT/ICDT Ph.D. Workshop 2011 (Uppsala) 
  Joint EDBT/ICDT Ph.D. Workshop 2010 (Lausanne)
  Joint EDBT/ICDT Ph.D. Workshop 2009 (St.-Petersburg)
  EDBT 2008 Ph.D. Workshop (Nantes)
  EDBT 2006 Ph.D. Workshop (Munich)
• PC member:
  ENASE (2011, 2010, 2009, 2008),
  ADI (2010, 2009, 2008), SYRCoDIS 2009, 2011
  
• Invited reviewer of the Journal of Systems and Software
• Invited Speaker at the 2. Jahresveranstaltung IT Configuration Management 2010 

Teaching activities

• Current and past courses (German only)
  
• Instructor of the FBZHL-Course "E-Learning: New media for academic teaching" (2010, again together with Georg Stippler).  
  
• Instructor of the FBZHL-Course "E-Learning: New media for academic teaching" (2009, together with Georg Stippler). 
  
• Organizer of the Meeting of the research group "Academic teaching of ITIL" of the itSMF at the Ansbach University of Applied Sciences.
• Member of the research group "Academic teaching of ITIL" of the itSMF  which aims to establish ITIL in the curriculum of academic institutions.
• Member of the technical didactics working group "Software-Engineering" of the universities of applied sciences in Bavaria.
  
• Invited lecture at the Shandong University of Science and Technology.
• Regularly since 2008: Offer for students to take the ITIL foundation exam.
• Instructor of the FBZHL-Course "E-Learning: New media for academic teaching" (2008, together with Georg Stippler).  
• Organizer of the "ITIL-Workshop" together with the Accenture's academic relationship team (2008).
• "Getting started - XNA GameStudio 2.0 at the Ansbach University of Applied Sciences" (2008).
  
• Instructor of the FBZHL-Course "E-Learning: New media for academic teaching" (2007, together with Prof. Dr. Jörg Wendorff).

Professional training

• Certificates:
  Associate Consultant/Auditor in ITSM according to ISO/IEC 20000 (2010)
  Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management according to ISO/IEC 20000  (2010)
  Bavarian Certificate of Academic Teaching (2007)
  Certificate of Academic Teaching of the Universities of Bamberg, Bayreuth, Erlangen-Nürnberg und Würzburg  (2006)
  
• DIZ-Trainings:
  "Humourous knowledge transfer" (2008)
  "Professional implementation of assessments" (2008) 
  "Motivation during lectures" (2008) 
  "Legal requirements for academic teaching" (2008)

Weitere Aktivitäten

• Member of the jury of the "Mittelfränkischer Website Award 2010"
• Mentor in the program for the advancement of women in academia (ARIADNE) of the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (2004-2006)

Publikationen

• Manually maintained list of publications (papers available upon request)
• List of publications at the DBLP Bibliographie Server of the University of Trier (Germany)
• Author's page at ACM (unfortunately not complete)

Curriculum Vitae

Since March 2007 Sascha Müller-Feuerstein (birth name: Müller) is a full professor for business informatics at Ansbach University of Applied Sciences. In the business informatics degree program he is in charge of the teaching areas game development, IT (service) management and IT infrastructure.

Between August 2003 and December 2006 Sascha Müller-Feuerstein was a member of the scientific research staff of the Chair for Database Systems at the University of  Erlangen-Nürnberg. He acquired his Ph.D. in Engineering in February 2007. After completing his degree (Dipl.-Inf.) at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg he worked as consultant, software engineer and trainer at Mathema Software GmbH, Erlangen, Germany, before joining ProDatO Integration Technologies GmbH, Erlangen, Germany, as software engineer between December 2000 and July 2003.