Laura M. Castro

I am a professor at Universidade da Coruña (UDC).
I am the chair of Cátedra CICAS, a joint project between UDC and Sngular to boost Open Science through Software.
I am the current director of CEXEF (Gender and Feminist Studies Centre, UDC),
I am part of the BEAM community, and the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation.
Last but not least, I am a member of AMIT-GAL (Women Researchers and Technologists Association).

Research

My research focuses on software testing (automated, model, and property-based testing), applied to software in general, and distributed, concurrent, functional systems in particular.
Most of my work takes place inside the BEAM.

You can check my latest publications of particular relevance in the sites below.
If you happen to be interested in related areas, I am always open to collaboration!

If your institution or company does not provide access to the following websites, or if you are browsing them from a personal device and cannot reach the linked publications, do not hesitate to contact me and ask me for a copy.

Employee profile at UDC
Scopus profile
ACM Digital Library profile
ORCID record
DBLP record
Web of Science (Researcher ID)
Google Scholar profile
arXiv search
InTech Open
Research Gate profile
Academia profile
AMiner profile
Lambert Academic Publishing

Teaching

I am the coordinator of two undegraduate courses offered as part of the Degree in Software Engineering at UDC.

Software Architecture

Software Architecture

Compulsory subject for 3rd-year students with a concentration on Software Engineering. Elective subject for 4th-year students with a concentration on Computer Science.

Software Testing

Software Verification and Validation

Compulsory subject for 4th-year students with a concentration on Software Engineering. Elective subject for 4th-year students with a concentration on Computer Science.


Looking for a supervisor? I am always open to hear you out if you want to work with Erlang, Elixir,...
Do you feel like diving into testing automation, model generation, distributed systems validation or similar?
Perhaps you are interested in more transversal aspects of technology: social media, societal impact, open source...
Just get in touch!

Dissemination

Here's a list of recorded talks I've given or co-authored.

If you're into podcasts, here's a list of pieces where I've been featured.

Last but not least, these are some initiatives I run, take part in, or collaborate with:

Cátedra CICAS
Radio Galega
Revirada Revista Feminista
Code BEAM Lite A Coruña
Hello, sisters!
IPT: Informática para tod@s
Inspira STEAM
Erlang Ecosystem Foundation