Judith Michael is a PostDoc and team leader at the Software Engineering Chair of Bernhard Rumpe at RWTH Aachen University, a member of the supervisory board of the Lakeside Science & Technology Park GmbH, Austria, and a member of the executive committee of the German Informatics Society (GI). Her research focuses on engineering complex, long-lasting, software-intensive systems in an integrated approach with different disciplines. She has experience in software language engineering, the engineering of digital twins, and model-driven software engineering. She is deputy coordinator in the workstream “Conceptual Foundations of Digital Shadows” in the German Cluster of Excellence "Internet of Production", and the German modeling community spokesperson (GI-QFAM). In 2015, she was appointed as a GI Junior Fellow. Her Ph.D. thesis (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria, 2014, supervised by Heinrich C. Mayr) was about Cognitive Modeling for Ambient Assistance.