Mairieli Wessel is an Assistant Professor at the Radboud University, the Netherlands. She obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Her main research interest is in software engineering (SE) and computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), focused on software bots and open-source development. In 2019, she was a graduate research intern at the Conversational Intelligence group at IBM Research Brazil. Previously to her research career, she worked in the industry as a software developer and as a robotics STEM instructor for primary students.