Wilhelm (Willi) Hasselbring studied Information Technology at the Technical University of Braunschweig. He earned his doctorate at Dortmund University in 1994. After further career stations in Essen and in the Netherlands, he was offered a professorship at Carl von Ossietzky (CvO) University in Oldenburg in 2000. In 2008 he was named Professor of Software Engineering at Kiel University and has been Dean of the Technical Faculty since 2011.