Sofia is a Senior Research & Innovation Manager - Expert at Netcompany-Intrasoft, heading the Security & Safety Lab. She holds an ECE Diploma and a PhD in Computer Science. She has more than 20 years' experience in research, development & innovation activities, as Senior Researcher, Senior Project and/ or Technical Coordinator, Senior Technical Architect and Leader of software development teams, in more than 40 national, industrial and EU-funded R&D projects in diverse application domains. She published many papers at scientific journals and conferences and is a senior member of IEEE.