After receiving her MSc in Computer Science in 1994 in Geneva, Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo did her PhD in Software Engineering at EPFL. She has worked at CERN and at several universities in Europe (Luxembourg, UK, France). In 2010, she was appointed as full professor in Geneva. Since 2019, she has been developing the Digital Innovation Hub at the University of Geneva, which aims to reach out to private, public, and international organisations.
She is now a Full Professor at the University of Geneva and the Director of Centre Universitaire d’Informatique (CUI).
Her fields of interest are adaptive services, ecosystems of services, agent-based collective intelligence and complex systems. She is convinced that it is beneficial to strengthen the links between academia and the professional world and will use her expertise to develop and enrich the various activities of SI.