We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Ricardo Colomo-Palacios has joined Software as a new Editorial Board Member.

Prof. Dr. Ricardo Colomo-Palacios is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Communication at Østfold University College. He is currently the director of the Information Systems and Software Engineering research group. He acquired his Ph.D. in computer science at the Universidad Politécnica of Madrid (2005). He also holds an MBA from the Instituto de Empresa (2002). He has been working in the industry for ten years as a software engineer, project manager, and software engineering consultant in several companies, including being a Spanish IT leader at INDRA. After that, he joined full time academia, firstly at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, and from 2014 at Østfold University College, Norway.

His works have been published in top journals of the discipline and he has also published more than 30 Special Issues in journals such as Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, Software Quality Journal, Journal of Global Information Technology Management, Science of Computer Programming, and Future Generation Computer Systems or Computer Standards & Interfaces, to name some of them. This editorial service is also tangible in his role as associate editor in IEEE Software, Computer Standards & Interfaces or IEEE Access. Prof. Dr. Colomo-Palacios is also engaged in the organization of many international conferences and workshops in the software arena.

His current research areas include software engineering management, people in software projects, software project management, business software, software and services process improvement, securing software, and cyber security. His works have been cited on a regular basis and, for instance, his citation results in Google Scholar are above 7300, and his h-index is 48.

In 2018, he received the Research Prize granted by Østfold University College as the most distinguished scholar of that year. He received several recognitions as an author of papers in journals and conferences, citing the award for Best Paper published in IET software in 2014 as one of his most important recognitions.