Paula Monteiro is an invited professor at the Departament of Information System of the University of Minho, and a researcher CCG's EPMQ Lab (IT Engineering Process, Maturity and Quality). She holds a PhD in Computer Science from the joint program from Universities of Minho, Aveiro and Porto and a M.Sc. in Informatics, Area of Expertise in Distributed Systems, Computer Communications and Computer Architecture from University of Minho. Her main research interests are Software Process Improvement, Software Testing, Model-driven Development, Requirements Engineering. She participated in several European and national projects and is integrated in the research group SEMAG (http://semag.algoritmi.uminho.pt/) at ALGORITMI Research Centre.