Gianna is the current Chair of ICoRSA. She is a Senior researcher with substantial expertise in ICT R&D European projects on Software Maintenance, Multimedia Educational Software, Software Requirements, Mobile Telecommunications. Interested in setting up new European projects in ICT.

Gianna Avellis is a leader researcher in ICT, Consulting and Technical Assistance, Innovapuglia SPA, Valenzano, Bari, Italy. She has been involved as project manager in a number of European projects in Software Engineering, Multimedia Educational Software, and Mobile Telecommunications. Currently, she plays the role of evaluator and monitor of research projects of SMEs with Universities and research centres for Apulia region funded by EU ERDF.

She served the EU Commission as independent expert evaluator of European project in Software & Services and IT. Her current research interests are in mobile software engineering, gender equality and Responsible Research and Innovation. Degree in Computer Science, 35 years in industrial research and 2 years in academic research at Imperial College, Department of Distributed Software Engineering, London, UK, funded by a Marie Curie fellowship. About 80 papers in conferences and peer review journals in Combinatorics, Software Engineering, Multimedia Systems, and Mobile e-learning.

She acts as reviewer of international journals in Mobile Telecommunications such as iJET Int. Journal of Engineering Technology, iJIM Int. Journal of Interactive Mobile Technology, iJTE Int. Journal of Information Technology Education. 

She volunteers in several researchers’ association, currently acting as Chair of ICoRSA, Chair of ITARSA the Italian Research Staff Association of ICoRSA that she founded in 2021. 

She is MCAA Fellow and founded the Gender Equality WG in MCAA, currently she is Chair of Task Force 5 on EU Projects of GEDI (Gender Equity Diversity and Inclusion) WG di MCAA WG www.mariecuriealumni.eu . 

Gianna actively play a role in the Advisory Board of GETA (Gender and Talent) Observatory on Gender Equality. She acted as Past President of ITWIIN www.itwiin.org, and currently coordinates the ITWIIN Centre-Southern Italy areas. 

She is member of CREIS (Centre of European Research in Sustainable Innovation) www.creiseuropeanresearch.it and Donne & Scienza www.donnescienza.it .  

She is Women20 Italy Delegate, an engagement group of G20 on Gender Equality, www.w20italia.it, and represented the Italian Delegation of Women20 as Chair of Women20 Italy in Japan in 2019.