Rate My Professor Ruzanna Chitchyan

Professor Ruzanna Chitchyan serves as Professor of Software Engineering for Sustainability in the School of Computer Science at the University of Bristol. She earned her PhD in Computer Science from Lancaster University in 2007, with a thesis titled Semantics-based Composition for Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering. Her research centers on software and systems requirements engineering, software engineering, socio-technical systems, human-computer interaction, energy transition, digital energy, digital services, community energy, energy systems, technology adoption, privacy, community engagement, user-centered design, co-creation, skills and training, sustainability, decentralized energy, and the sharing economy. Chitchyan is a member of the Bristol Interaction Group and is affiliated with the Bristol Poverty Institute and the Cabot Institute for the Environment. Previously, she held positions at the University of Leicester, contributing to publications such as Sustainability Design in Requirements Engineering: State of Practice.

Chitchyan has led several research projects as Principal Investigator, including Co-creating Equitable Circular Food Systems through a Digital Hub (2024-2027), Tolling up Citizens Upskilling for SLES (2022-2023), and Energy Wallet (2022). She has received EPSRC funding for initiatives like Refactoring Energy Systems (£459,141, 2017-2020) and Household-Supplier Energy Market. An EPSRC fellow on Living with Environmental Change, her scholarly output includes 102 research items documented at the University of Bristol, with over 3,800 citations noted on ResearchGate across 150 publications. Key works feature The Karlskrona Manifesto for Sustainability Design (2015), Sustainability Design in Requirements Engineering: State of Practice (2016), Bristol as a Smart Local Energy System of Systems (2021), Requirements Engineering for Sustainable Software Systems (2023), and Embedding Sustainability in Software Engineering Curriculum: A Case Study (2026). Her contributions have advanced sustainability integration in software engineering practices and education, influencing socio-technical approaches to environmental challenges.