Heinz Schmidt is Professor of Software Engineering at RMIT University where he is the Director of e-Research and Head of Distributed Software Engineering and Architecture. Heinz is also an adjunct professor at Maelardalen University in Sweden and Monash University in Australia. Heinz received his PhD from Bremen University, Germany. He has over 30 years experience with component-based and object-oriented architecture, systems and languages in practice, research and education. Heinz has published over 120 refereed articles, supervised over 25 higher-degree research (Masters and PhD) students, and lectures in software engineering, distributed systems and enterprise architecture.
Prior to RMIT Heinz held positions at Monash University, the CSIRO and ANU in Canberra, at the German National Research Centre for Information Technology and the International Computer Science Institute at the University California, Berkeley.
Prof Schmidt has led large university-industry research collaborations, in the European ESPRIT program and the Australian Collaborative Research Center program, among others with SIEMENS, ABB, DEC and Olivetti, IBM and others.