It is our great pleasure to welcome Carmela Troncoso as an IMDEA Software Institute researcher. Carmela received her doctorate in 2011 from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, and has since served as S&P Technical Lead at the Centro Tecnolóxico de Telecomunicaciones de Galicia (GRADIANT). Her doctoral thesis “Design and Analysis Methods for Privacy Technologies” received the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award from the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics WG Security and Trust Management. She has been a visitor at numerous prestigious security research groups including Microsoft Research Cambridge, the Hatswich group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and at LCA1 at the École Polytechnique Féderale de Laussane.

Carmela is a co-author of more than 35 publications in peer-reviewed international conferences and journals. She has been program chair of the Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies Workshop (HotPETs) in 2010 and 2011, and General Chair of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium in 2012. She has also served on over 10 program committees of international conferences, and reviewed articles for numerous international journals.