Patricia Lago is Professor of Software Engineering at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where she established the Software and Sustainability (S2) research group in the Computer Science Department. Her research is in software architecture, software and service design, software quality assessment and software sustainability.
She is the director of the VU Digital Sustainability Center (DiSC).
She has been the director of the Master Information Sciences, initiator of the Computer Science Master Track in Software Engineering and Green IT, and co-founder of the Green Lab, a place where researchers, students and companies collaborate to measure the energy- and sustainability footprint of software solutions and the impact on software quality.
She served in the management team of IPN (ICT-research Platform Netherlands), and a member of VERSEN, the Dutch National Association for Software Engineering.
She is a member of the Steering Committees of conference series IEEE ICSA, ECSA, and ICT4S; a member of 'Het Groene Brein', and a signatory and member of the Dutch Coalition Sustainable Digitalization (NCDD).
