I am Victoria Degeler, Associate Professor at the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. I am a member of the Intelligent Data Engineering Lab, Complex-Cyber Infrastructures group and the Data Science Centre. My research is focused on representation models, reasoning and decision making for smart environments, activity recognition, digital twins, pervasive systems and context modeling, with particular interest in large-scale critical infrastructures and sustainable applications such as energy and water management.

I’ve got BSc in Applied Mathematics from National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute”, Ukraine; MSc in Intelligent Systems Design from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. My career, always at the edge of both academia and industry, included academic positions at the National University of Ireland in Galway, Delft University of Technology and the University of Groningen; a research engineer position at Airbus, Newport (UK); and the Head of AI position in Cupenya, Amsterdam. I also contributed to Training in AI for SMEs programs, and act as mentor for startups at Rockstart Startup Accelerator, Amsterdam.

I am the PI of the NWO “DiTEC: Digital Twins for Evolutionary Changes in Water Networks” and a co-PI of NWO DDTClean; with considerable experience coordinating EIT, NWO, and EU Horizon projects, and received several research grants, from funding agencies such as NWO, EIT Manufacturing, EIT Climate, AMS, gained a patent and received best demonstration and best student paper awards. I am the Reproducibility and Associate Editor of IEEE TSC, Editorial Board member of the JAISE, and the creator of the “Digital Twin Engineering” master’s course. Co-organised ICT.OPEN’26, EDTConf’26, DiDiT’24, and ICSOC’25-‘26, IE’27, DEBS’27. Steering board member of SummerSOC, ICT.OPEN’27. I acted as a PC member on a number of conferences, including ECML-PKDD, CIKM, IEEE Big Data, SOCA, ICSOC. I serve regularly as a reviewer and monitor for projects under the Horizon framework, and for several national research funding agencies.

I am also the scientific coordinator on the University of Amsterdam’s side of the MSc Computer Science joint program, and the Specialisation Coordinator of the Big Data Engineering specialisation on this program.