Marc Schmidt, M.Sc. RWTH

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Software Engineering
Department of Computer Science 3
RWTH Aachen University
Ahornstraße 55
D-52074 Aachen

+49 (241) 80-21359
schmidt@se-rwth.de

Room 4226



Research Areas

Applying agile development methodologies and best practices to research software engineering.

Running Theses

  • Andreea Simona Berbece (Master’s Thesis): Recommendations for Efficient and Sustainable Research Software Engineering
  • Can Taylan Kutbay (Bachelor’s Thesis): Analytical Evaluation of Semantic Enrichment for Semi-Structured Interview Transcripts
  • Chenmin Gu (Bachelor’s Thesis): An Evaluation of Clusters as Coding Suggestions in a Thematic Analysis Workflow
  • Daniel Heidchen (Bachelor’s Thesis): Comparison of Thematic Analysis and LLM-Based Approaches for Answering Research Questions
  • Dhruvkumar Nareshkumar Sathawara (Master’s Thesis): A Methodological Framework for Evaluating Coding Suggestions in NLP-Assisted Qualitative Analysis
  • Gunnar Lueders (Bachelor’s Thesis): An Interview Study on the Software Engineering Enablers of Production Ecosystems
  • Henry Schoen (Bachelor’s Thesis): Challenges of Research Software Engineering in Quantum Physics: A Thematic Analysis of Qualitative Interviews
  • Malte Ewald (Bachelor’s Thesis): Root Cause Analysis of Institute-level Inefficiencies in Research Software Development
  • Maurice Rosenbaum (Bachelor’s Thesis): Automatic derivation of Class Diagrams from Python Projects and their reduction to comprehensible Sub-Diagrams.
  • Nguyen, Hoang Phuong (Bachelor’s Thesis): Methodology for Evaluating AI-Based Semantic Enrichment of Interview Transcripts for Topic Clustering

Completed Theses

2026

Mai
  • Pit Fischbach (Master’s Thesis): Durchführung einer Interviewstudie zur effizienteren und nachhaltigeren Entwicklung von Forschungssoftware
April
  • Felix Klenner (Master’s Thesis): Parallel Measurement Software Framework for Quantum Devices
  • Marc Lausberg (Bachelor’s Thesis): LLM-Based Extension of Static Code Analysis for Scientific Python Projects
März
  • Dennis Prüne (Bachelor’s Thesis): A Domain-Specific Language for Date and Time Representations
  • Edgar Fandrich (Bachelor’s Thesis): Towards the Integration of a Linter into a Research Software Engineering Process
  • Elif Tufan (Bachelor’s Thesis): Automated Generation of Class Diagrams to Support Python Code Comprehension
  • Elisabeth Tenbusch (Bachelor’s Thesis): Topic Modeling for Qualitative Interview Analysis
  • Ming Cheng Lee (Master’s Thesis): An Incremental Approach to Documenting Python Projects Using Large Language Models

2025

Juli
  • Marion Guoth (Master’s Thesis): Developing a Scientific Plotting Library with Scrum: A Case Study from Experimental Quantum Device Physics

2024

November
  • Utkarsh Dubey (Master’s Thesis): Developing a Modular IDE Extension for Visualizing Domain-Specific Models
Juli
  • Ngoc Khanh Nguyen (Bachelor’s Thesis): Streamlining the creation of Synchronized Editors by revising their language support and generator

Teaching

Summer Term 2026

Winter Term 2025/2026

Summer Term 2025

Winter Term 2024/2025

Summer Term 2024

Winter Term 2023/2024

  • Lecture: Model-based Software Systems Engineering