Stefan Marr

Full Professor (Universitätsprofessor)

Stefan Marr I head the Institute for System Software at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. My work focuses on programming language implementation techniques, compilation, complex concurrent systems, and tooling.

I am personally interested in making interpreters faster, detecting and preventing concurrency bugs at run time, and use modern language runtime systems to provide programmers with better tooling.

For contact details, please see my staff page.

Archive of posts with the tag Personal

Oct 1, 2025: First Day: A New Chapter at the JKU

It’s Wednesday. Is this important? It’s my first day in a new position. So, perhaps the real question is: what’s going to be important to me from now on?
Jul 31, 2025: It's Thursday, and My Last* Day at Kent

Today is the 31st of July 2025, and from tomorrow on I’ll be “between jobs”, or as Gen Z allegedly calls it, on a micro-retirement.
Oct 7, 2017: Hello Canterbury!

In case you have been reading the previous post or following me on Twitter or Facebook, you might know that I had the silly idea of cycling from Linz in Austria all the way to Canterbury in England.
Aug 2, 2017: #bikexit17, Hello England, Goodbye EU?

Academics are infamous for their project names and abbreviations, so, let’s call this #bikexit17…