Prof. Dr. Holger Giese heads the Systems Analysis and Modeling research group since January 2008. The team focuses on model-driven software development for software-intensive systems. This includes the UML-based specification of flexible systems with samples and components, approaches to the formal verification of these models and approaches to the synthesis of models. The group also looks at the transformations of models, code generation concepts for structure and behavior for models and, in general, the problem of the integration of models in model-driven software development.