Patricia Lago

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prof. dr. Patricia Lago

phd

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2234-0845

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Patricia Lago is Professor of Software Engineering at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where she established the Software and Sustainability (S2) research group in the Computer Science Department. Her research is in software architecture, software and service design, software quality assessment and software sustainability.

She is the director of the VU Digital Sustainability Center (DiSC).

She has been the director of the Master Information Sciences, initiator of the Computer Science Master Track in Software Engineering and Green IT, and co-founder of the Green Lab, a place where researchers, students and companies collaborate to measure the energy- and sustainability footprint of software solutions and the impact on software quality.

She served in the management team of IPN (ICT-research Platform Netherlands), and a member of VERSEN, the Dutch National Association for Software Engineering.

She is a member of the Steering Committees of conference series IEEE ICSA and ECSA, and Standing Committee chair of ICT4S; member of the IFIP 2.10 Working group on Software Architecture, the IFIP 2.14 Working group on Services-based Systems, the Dutch Knowledge Network on Green Software, 'Het Groene Brein', and signatary and member of the Dutch Coalition Sustainable Digitalization (NCDD).

Research

Her passion in research is to create software engineering knowledge that makes software better, smarter, and more sustainable.

She is specialized in architecture design decision making and quality assessment, with a special focus on software innovation, sustainable software, and software for sustainability.

Teaching

Teaching courses:

  • Service Oriented Design (Master CS)
  • Digitalization and Sustainability (Master IS and CS)
  • Fair Digital Design (Master IS)

Coordinator of courses:

  • Literature Study (Master CS)
  • Digital Architecture (former name: Software Architecture)

Ancillary activities

  • ElsevierJournal of Systems and Software | Nvt | Onbekend | 2013-12-16 - present

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Personal information

  • Editorial Board Journal of Systems and Software
  • Editorial Board ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems
  • Editorial Board IEEE Software Magazine 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  • SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
  • SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

User created Keywords

  • software architecture
  • sustainability
  • architecture design decision making
  • software quality
  • energy-aware software

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