Laura M. Castro
Dr. Laura M. Castro is a professor at the University of A Coruña, Spain, where she has been lecturing for more than 15 years. Apart from being a coordinator of several undergraduate courses on software architecture and software testing, she is currently the president of the Institutional Chair for Open Science Promotion through Software (CICAS). Her most recent research interests focus on the automatic validation of distributed systems. She has supervised three Ph.D. theses and acted as principal investigator for several European projects. She is also actively involved in dissemination activities, particularly the visibility of women in STEM, as a member of the Association for Computing Machinery's Council on Women in Computing (ACM-W) Europe.