Annette is leading the Software Technology Group at the University of Kaiserslautern. Her research interests include semantics of concurrent and distributed programming, with a focus on replication, synchronization, and programming language concepts such as Software Transactional Memory and Replicated Data Structures. Annette is involved in several national and international research projects, including the EU-H2020 Project “Lightkone: Lightweight computation for networks at the edge”.