Presenter

Dr. Maria-Ribera Sancho, professor at the UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech) is active in Software Engineering for over 25 years. She was Dean of the Barcelona School of Informatics and as vice-dean, head of studies. She is Responsible for Academic Programmes at BSC. Her research areas are conceptual modeling, information systems and software engineering. She is member of PMI research group of the UPC. She also collaborates with the LIAM (Information Analysis and Modeling Lab) research group of the UPC at InLab http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/. She has participated in many projects at different companies and institutions. Spanish representative at the IFIP TC8 (Information Systems). Dean Country Ambassador at Deans ‘European Academia Network-DEAN (2006-2010). President of the Spanish Council of Deans and Directors of Informatics (2006-2010). Honorary member of this Council since 2010. She is member of the committee for the Barcelona Strategic Plan, the INES platform, FIBAlumni, ATI and SISTEDES.