Claudia Ayala is an associate professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). She received her PhD degree in Informatics from UPC. She was a postdoctoral ERCIM research fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Her current research interests include empirical software engineering, open source software engineering, requirements engineering and software quality. She serves as reviewer of several journals and is a member of several program committees in the area.