Maria Teresa Baldassarre is an Associate Professor, PhD, at the Department of Informatics of the University of Bari, Italy and a member of the Software Engineering Research Laboratory (SERLab), where she coordinates the Human Aspects & Quality area. Her research interests mainly focus on empirical software engineering, human aspects in software engineering, AI engineering (Trustworthy AI, Fairness in AI-based systems) and quality assurance. She is involved in several research projects and conducts controlled and in-field experimentation within small and medium enterprises and international academic partners. She is a founding member and partner of the SER&Practices spin-off company at the University of Bari. Currently, she represents the University of Bari in the International Software Engineering Research Network (ISERN). She is a PC member of several relevant software engineering conferences and is a regular reviewer for SE journals such as EMSE, JSS, and IST. She is Associate Editor of the Decision Support Systems Journal, part of the Editorial Board of the Empirical Software Engineering Journal, and co-chair of Registered Reports for EMSE. She has covered several roles in organizing top-tier software engineering-related conferences such as ESEM, CHASE, ICSME, ICSE, EASE, TechDebt, and SANER.