Thomas Hildebrandt is professor in software engineering and head of the research section for software, data, people & society. With a background in formal process models he has in more than 10 years been leading inter-disciplinary research and innovation projects with focus on methods and technologies for developing reliable and flexible software systems suited for the people who use them, including digitalisation of law, workflows and business processes information systems. His vision is to develop the foundation for reliable digital systems that can continuously be adapted to changing user needs and legislation, also after the systems have been taken into use. He is a member of several advisory boards and committees for digitalisation and artificial intelligence.

Thomas is also independent consultant and speaker within digitalisation and has warrants in the company DCR Solutions, which was established based on his reserach.