Carme Quer

Carme Quer is a Lecturer at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), affiliated with the Barcelona School of Informatics and the Department of Engineering of Services and Information Systems. She holds a PhD in Computer Science and has dedicated her career to advancing Requirements Engineering, Software Quality, and e-Assessment methodologies. Her work emphasizes practical applications in tertiary education and industry collaboration.

Her research focuses on requirement patterns, software quality models, and innovative teaching tools like LearnSQL and PABRE. She leads the GESSI (Software and Service Engineering Group) and contributes to the inSSIDE research group. Key contributions include frameworks for requirements elicitation, COTS component selection, and quality model construction.

Notable awards include the Best Paper Award 2004. Her work spans over 60 publications, with recent emphasis on AI-driven requirements engineering and industry practice studies. She actively participates in academic committees and has developed tools like DesCOTS and QM to support software lifecycle activities.

Her teaching innovations include collaborative learning techniques in database courses and semi-presential learning environments. Current projects explore the integration of LLMs in requirements processes and improving tertiary education frameworks in software engineering.