About

Brian Fitzgerald was one of the founding Principal Investigators of Lero–the Irish Software Research Centre in 2005, and subsequently held the roles of Chief Scientist and Director with Lero. He holds an endowed professorship, the Krehbiel Chair in Innovation in Business & Technology, at the University of Limerick, where he also served as Vice President Research. In 2020, he was elected President of the Association for Information Systems, the global body for information systems worldwide. He was a recipient of the IFIP award for Outstanding Service in 2013 and the IFIP Silver Core Award in 2016. In 2024, he received the LEO Award in recognition of his lifetime contribution to the Information Systems discipline.

He holds a PhD from the University of London and his research interests lie primarily in software development, encompassing open source and inner source, crowdsourcing software development, agile and lean software development, and global software development. His publications include 17 books, and over 200 peer-reviewed articles in the leading international journals and conferences in both the Information Systems and Software Engineering fields, including MIS Quarterly (MISQ), Information Systems Research (ISR), IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) and ACM Transactions on Software Engineering Methodology (TOSEM). He also serves as General Chair for the premier conferences in both disciplines, the 37th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), held in Dublin in 2016, and the 49th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), to be held in Dublin in 2027.

His research projects have received over €115m in peer-reviewed funding from national and international funding agencies. Prior to taking up an academic position, he worked as a software developer for about 12 years, working in Ireland, Belgium and Germany