Presenter

Marta Mattoso is a Professor of the Department of Computer Science at the COPPE Institute from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) since 1994, where she leads the Distributed Database Research Group. She has received the Doctor of Science degree from UFRJ. She has been active in the database research community for more than fifteen years and her current research interests include distributed and parallel databases, data management aspects of scientific workflows. She is the principal investigator in research projects in those areas, with funding from several Brazilian government agencies, including CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, FINEP and INRIA. She has published over 100 refereed international journal articles and conference papers. She is a member of ACM, IEEE and SBC—Brazilian Computer Society. She has served in program committees of international conferences, and is a regular reviewer of several international journals.