Summary
Gemma Catolino is an Assistant Professor and software engineering researcher with 11 years of experience, combining academic rigor from a European PhD with practical teaching and research roles across Dutch and Italian universities. Her work spans software quality, program comprehension, and empirical software engineering, built on a strong foundation in Management & Information Technology (magna cum laude) and Computer Science. She has held postdoctoral positions at Delft and Tilburg and contributed to international research environments through multiple long-term visiting stays. Known for bridging measurement-driven software quality research with hands-on mentoring, she moved seamlessly from PhD student to faculty while maintaining international collaborations. Based in Italy, she brings a pragmatic academic perspective that emphasizes reproducible, metric-driven approaches to improving software comprehension and quality.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Management & Information Technology, 110 cum laude, Master's degree, Management & Information Technology, 110 cum laude at Università degli Studi di Salerno
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 94/110, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 94/110 at Università degli Studi del Molise
Italian, English