Michael Stal (born 1963 in Munich) is a German computer scientist.
He received a Ph.D. title [1] from the University of Groningen which appointed him an honorary professorship for software engineering in 2010.
[2] Stal is currently working for the corporate technology department of Siemens AG and as a professor at University of Groningen.
[3] Stal co-authored the book series Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture.
Stal has been member of the Object Management Group and participated in the standardization of C++.