Dr. Maria-Ribera Sancho

Dr. Maria-Ribera Sancho is the manager of Education and Training Team at Barcelona Supercomputing Centre and a tenured professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. She has served as head of studies, vice-dean, and dean of the Barcelona School of Informatics (1998-2010). Her main research areas are conceptual modelling, information systems and software engineering and include learning analytics and adaptive learning. She’s author of number of internationally published research papers and has participated in many EC funded projects. She also works with InLab http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/. She is the 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) and a honorary member of this Council since 2010. She is member of the committee for the Barcelona Strategic Plan, of FIB Alumni, ATI and SISTEDES and of the INES platform.