Awards and achievements

• 2019 - UCL Innovation and Enterprise award for Best New Partnership; UCL & Numberfit.


• 2015 - PhD Thesis awarded as the "Best thesis in modelling, simulation and optimization", by the Spanish Committee of Automatic Systems.


• 2013 - Best paper award at the 34th ICATPN (International conference on Petri Nets)


• 2013 - Best work of the division at the I3A Young Researchers Meeting of Aragon (Spain)

Service to the community

• Spotlight Competition Chair at the London Hopper Colloquium 2023, organized by UCL and BSC. 30 May 2023.


• Reviewer in a handfull of conferences and journals: Teaching and Teacher Education (2023), DEDS (2021, 2020, 2013), AIED (2020), IDC (2020), BJET (2019), ETFA (2014), WODES (2014), IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man & Cybernetics (2013).

Dissertations

• PhD Thesis
  Fluidization of Petri nets to improve the analysis of Discrete Event Systems. PhD Thesis. María Estíbaliz Fraca Santamaria. Supervisors: Manuel Silva Suárez and Jorge E. Júlvez Bueno. Universidad de Zaragoza, Prensas de la Universidad, Zaragoza, 2015. (pdf)


• Master Thesis
  Hybrid Adaptive Petri nets: reachability and deadlock-freeness (Redes de Petri híbridas adaptativas : alcanzabilidad y ausencia de bloqueos). Master Thesis. María Estíbaliz Fraca Santamaria. Supervisors: Jorge E. Júlvez Bueno and Manuel Silva Suárez . Universidad de Zaragoza, Prensas de la Universidad, Zaragoza, 2011. (pdf)


• Final Degree Thesis (PFC)
  Implementación de un generador de estrategias de autoconfiguración para la mejora de prestaciones de software autoadaptativo. Final Thesis. María Estíbaliz Fraca Santamaria. Supervisors: Diego Pérez Palacín and José J. Merseguer Hernáiz/. Universidad de Zaragoza, Prensas de la Universidad, Zaragoza, 2010. (pdf)