Thomas is currently stand-in professor for Empirical Software Engineering at Paderborn University, Germany (until October 2022). Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Software Engineering Group (Prof. Lars Grunske) at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, after being a doctoral student in the System Analysis and Modeling Group (Prof. Holger Giese) at the Hasso Plattner Institute/ University of Potsdam, Germany, where he received his Ph.D. degree with summa cum laude. He graduated with a university diploma in Information Systems and with distinction from the University of Bamberg, Germany. His research interests are in the areas of (search-based) software engineering, model-driven engineering, self-adaptive & intelligent/autonomous systems, and automated quality assurance of software as well as the combination of these areas.