Lenarduzzi, Valentina

Assistant professor (tenure track) at University of Oulu (Finland).

Valentina Lenarduzzi is an assistant professor (tenure track) at University of Oulu (Finland). Her research activities are related to modern software development practices and methodologies, including data analysis in software engineering, software quality, software maintenance and evolution, focusing on Technical Debt as well as code and architectural smells. She got the Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2015 and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, (Italy), at the Tampere University (Finland), and at LUT University (Finland). Moreover, she was visiting researcher at the University of Kaiserslautern (TUK) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE (Germany). She served as a program committee member of various international conferences (e.g., ICPC, ICSME, ESEM), and for various international journals (e.g., TSE, EMSE, JSS, IST) in the field of software engineering. She has been program co-chair of OSS 2021 and TechDebt 2022. She was also one of the organizers of the last edition of MaLTeSQuE workshop (2022) collocated with ESEC/FSE. Dr. Lenarduzzi is recognized by the Journal of Systems and Software (JSS) as one of the most active SE researchers in top-quality journals in the period 2013 to 2020.