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Since June 2009, I am a full-time Assistant Professor in the University of Chile, member of the Pleiad research group.

Former member of the RMoD research group (INRIA Lille, France), Software Architecture Group (Hasso-Plattner Institut, Germany), LERO (The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre) and Distributed Systems Group (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) under a SFI grant and Software Composition Group (University of Bern, Switzerland).

My research interests include programming languages, modularity, programming environment, and software quality. For details concerning my research, check out the publications page. On Google Scholar. On DBLP. List of citations. The focus of my work is mainly on (i) defining languages construct to support software evolution and (ii) defining tools and methodology to increase quality in software.

I won the Ernst-Denert Prize 2006 for Software Engineering for my work on Classboxes. The ceremony was held in Dresden (Germany) on October 4th 2006. Pictures are available.

Research question:

I am interested in the widest sense of software quality, software evolution and programming languages. The research questions I have been investigating since I started my Ph.D. are How to increase program quality and ease evolution of software? What are the language constructs and tools to asses the quality of software? The systems I am currently formulating hypotheses for are based on dynamically typed applications and typed industrial applications (Smalltalk, C, ADA, Java).


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Working together:

I like to work with people. Great things cannot be the result of a single person. If you like programming and if you have energy, than you are entitled to knock my door. I am quite open to work topics. As soon as your dream is to improve the ability or quality of some software, then we should talk together.

If you live in Chile and want to have fun with Pharo, just join the Pharo-Chile mailing list.


Keywords: Software Engineering, Object-Oriented Programming, Language Design, Aspects-Oriented Programming, Reflection, Modules, Teaching OO, Mixins, Traits, Classboxes, Scheme, Smalltalk, Java, Ruby and Embedded systems.


Contact:

Email: abergel@@@@dccPOINTuchilePOINTcl (just use one @ and replace POINT by .)

In Chile:
Prof. Alexandre Bergel
DCC, University of Chile,
Blanco Encalada 2120, of. 409, Piso 4
Santiago, Chile

Tel: +56 9 913 123 81 (Chile)
Fax: +56 2 689 6128 (Chile)


Research Community Implication:

I am the international coordinator of the CoReA research project (scientific cooperation between Chile, France and Argentina). The CoReA Website is available.

I am a reviewer of the following international journals: I am program committee co-chair of:
I am co-workshop chair at Tools Europe 2008, Tools Europe 2009.

I co-organized

I am a program committee member of the following events:
I was invited keynote speacher at the Czech conference on object-oriented programming Objekty 2006. Title of the presentation: Controlling the Scope of Change in Java with Classboxes.

During the Dagstuhl seminar on Latently typed languages I had diner with Ralph Johnson. Here few words about the new edition of the Design Pattern book.
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