With expertise in both human computer interaction (HCI) and software engineering (SE), I adopt agile and participatory methods to software systems design, and I investigate the role of human values in computing and of digital technology in environmental and social change. I work across domains including public place design, digital health, and community renewables. I am an experienced team leader of large interdisciplinary and multi-stakeholders projects both within and outside academia, including EPSRC-funded Catalyst and Clasp, focusing respectively on digital action for social change and personalised health IoT. Twice awarded a Senior Fellowship in digital sustainability at the DCI, University of Toronto, Canada (2017, and 2018). Principal Investigator of EPSRC-funded project Values-First SE and Co-investigator on Ensemble.

Before joining academia, I worked as an Internet Technology Officer at the European EEIG ERNACT, managing e-government projects focused on the social and economic development of EU crossborder regions through digital innovation. I joined QUB in 2021 from the School of Computing and Communications (SCC), Lancaster University.

EDUCATION

- PhD in  On-line Intelligent Systems, Computing Dept. UCD, Dublin, Ireland.
- MSc in Multimedia Systems, Engineering Dept., Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
- BA/MA in Philosophy and Social Psychology, Universita' Cattolica, Milan, Italy.

CAREER DETAILS

- 2021, Senior Lecturer, EEECS, Queen's University Belfast, UK
- 2016, Lecturer, SCC, Lancaster University, UK
- 2014, Research Fellow, SCC, Lancaster University, UK
- 2009, SRA, SCC, Lancaster University, UK
- 2006, SRA, Faculty of Arts, Ulster University, UK.
- 2002, Internet Technologies Officer, ERNACT EEIG, Letterkenny, Ireland.