Dr. Efi Papatheocharous is a senior researcher at the Software and Systems Engineering laboratory at the RISE Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS). Her research interest is in software engineering, focusing on improved processes for planning and managing, efficient construction and evolution of software-intensive systems. Areas of research include software ecosystems, software-intensive systems, systems-of-systems or federated embedded systems. Prior to SICS she was a Postdoctoral Fellow (2013) at the same research institute, Visiting Lecturer (2012) and Research Associate both in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus (2006-2010) and the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics at the Cyprus University of Technology (2011). Her research topics include software project management and cost estimation, software architectures, and agile methods.