Lodewijk Bergmans is an Assistant Professor at the University of Twente in The Netherlands (Dept. of Computer Science, Faculty EEMCS). He is affiliated with the TRESE (Twente Research & Education on Software Engineering) group, lead by Prof. Mehmet Aksit. Lodewijk Bergmans holds an M.Sc. degree in Computer Science, and received a Ph.D. in Computer Science, both from the University of Twente. He has ample industrial experience as an independent consultant, teacher, and mentor in object-oriented software engineering, most notably on analysis and design, and software architectures. He has worked for Ericsson Mobile Communications on the software architecture of mobile phones. As a researcher, he has worked with industrial partners such as Siemens Nixdorf, KPN Research, and ASML.

Lodewijk’s long-standing research interest is in software composition at the modeling and programming language level: What are the problems of the state-of-the-art composition techniques? Where do these problems originate? How can the modularity, expression power, adaptability and robustness of composition techniques be improved? The topic Aspect- & Object Composability on this website gives more details and examples of the recent research he has done in this area. He has been actively involved in aspect-oriented software development research since its early days, and aspect-oriented composition is a key focus of his work. Most of his research has resulted in contributions to the composition filters model, an extension to the object-oriented model with advanced composition techniques, including aspect-orientation.

Lodewijk Bergmans has been the (co-)organizer of numerous workshops on software composition and AOSD. He has actively participated in conferences such as AOSD, ECOOP and OOPSLA through presenting papers, tutorials, and demonstrations, by participating in workshops, or within the organizing committee. He has been a program committee member of AOSD and NODe conferences and many workshops.