Marcela Genero is Full Professor at the Department of Technologies and Information Systems at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain. She received her MSc degree in Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science of the University of South, Argentine in 1989, and her PhD at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain in 2002. Her research focuses on the following areas: empirical software engineering, software quality, quality models, conceptual models quality, big data quality, software modelling effectiveness, etc.. Marcela Genero has published more than 100 peer review papers in prestigious journals (DKE, EMSE, ACM TOSEM, IST, JSS, SOSYM, etc.) and conferences (CAISE, E/R, MODELS, ISESE, METRICS, ESEM, EASE, etc.). She co-edited the books titled “Data and Information Quality” (Kluwer, 2001) and “Metrics for Software Conceptual Models” (Imperial College, 2005), among others. She participated in several program committees (CAISE, EASE, ESEM, ICEIS, ICSM, ISESE, etc.) and as reviewer of several journals as well (DKE, EMSE, IEEE TSE, JSS, IST, SOSYM, etc.). She has organised several conferences, workshops and tutorials on empirical studies in software modelling, evidence-based software engineering, quality in conceptual modelling, etc. She has managed several research projects which involved universities and private companies as partners, related to topics within the research areas previously mentioned. She is member of the International Software Engineering Research Network (ISERN) since 2004.