Pasqua D’Ambra is a Research Director with the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy at the Institute for Applied Computing “Mauro Picone” (IAC) in Naples. She earned her PhD in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy. Her research interests are in parallel numerical algorithms and mathematical software with applications to Computational and Data Science. She is WP leader in Euro-HPC projects and is a co-author of open-source scientific libraries for parallel sparse matrix computations targeting exascale.  She serves as editor and reviewer for relevant scientific journals and funding institutions and is involved in scientific committees of main European conferences on HPC topics. She is a member of the Governing Board of the CINI Laboratory on HPC-KTT since its inception.