Julia Lawall received the Ph.D. degree in 1994 from the Indiana University. She has been a senior research scientist at Inria since 2011 and head of the Whisper team since 2021. Previously, she was an Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen. Her research interests are in the area of improving the quality of infrastructure software, using a variety of approaches including program analysis, program transformation, and software verification. She develops the tool Coccinelle that is extensively used in the development of the Linux kernel and she has over 2000 patches in the Linux kernel based on this work.