Sabbatical Tom Schrijvers: Future-oriented applications of programming languages

My scientific research during this sabbatical covers three topics. The first thrust is collaboration with researchers at Imperial College London, and by extension with other British research institutions. Programming languages, my research domain, is strongly developed in the United Kingdom (including at Oxford University, Cambridge University, University of Kent, University of Edinburgh) with 16 staff members in this domain at Imperial College alone. This provides many opportunities for collaboration on complementary research themes and inspiration for new research avenues. The second line is the development of more applied research, complementary to my realized fundamental research. There are many companies in London and the United Kingdom with large R&D departments that apply my research themes in practice: programming with functional programming languages and patterns, development of domain-specific languages, ... I want to talk to them to gain inspiration for new common lines of research. The third line is concentrated work on a book with the working title “Language Engineering in Haskell” together with Dr Nicolas Wu (Imperial College). This book opens up scientific research from recent years (including my own research) in an accessible, practical and scientifically substantiated way to a wider audience of researchers, students and the high-tech software industry.