Bio:
Michel is an Associate Professor of Software Engineering at the Centre of Software Technology, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), in Vejle, Denmark. Before, he was an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Technology Paraná (UTFPR), in Brazil.

His research focuses on sustainable software engineering for cyber-physical systems, especially robotics. He is particularly interested in projects based on the Robot Operating System, ROS, where the main goal is to improve the software development process towards quality, reliability, and energy efficiency of robotic software systems.

Over the years, he has been working on topics such as software architecture for robotics, empirical software engineering, software quality, software energy consumption, mining software repositories, and AI-assisted software development.