Prof Katarzyna Wac, PhD, is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Geneva, Switzerland and an Invited Professor of Health Informatics at the Department of Computer Science (DIKU), University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and is affiliated with Stanford University and Medical Centre since 2013. Prof Wac holds degrees from Wroclaw University of Technology (Poland) in Computer Science (BSc/MSc, 2003), from University of Twente (the Netherlands) in Telematics (MSc, 2004) and University of Geneva (Switzerland) in Information Systems (PhD, 2009). She is leading the Quality of Life Technologies lab responsibly unleashing the power of data to benefit the quality of life of all individuals. More specifically, the lab’s research interests revolve around the fundamental and algorithmic problems as well as human-centric challenges of the systems enabling an assessment and improvement of human behavior, well-being, health, disease self-management, and quality of life as it unfolds naturally over time and in context.
