Mariana Netto is a Researcher at the Université Gustave Eiffel, France. She obtained her French Senior diploma Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches in 2013 and her Ph.D degree in automatic control, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from the Laboratory of Signals and Systems (L2S)—CentraleSupélec—University of South-Paris, France, in 2001, on the topic “Adaptive Control of Nonlinearly Parameterized Systems”. She was also assistant professor within the University of South-Paris for one year before integrating the Univ. Eiffel. Among her international research activities, Mariana Netto has led her institution (IFSTTAR) in the European Network of Excellence HYCON2; she is serving as chair of the IFAC Technical Committee 9.2 'Social Impact of Automation', for 2020-2023, after having served as vice chair of this committee from 2014 to 2020. Mariana Netto has also been co-founder and co-leader of the national research forum on Intelligent Electric Systems and Networks from the CNRS Research Forum GDR MACS (2010-2020). She has served since 2019 as member of the CPHS Steering Committee, and as such she served to CPHS 2020 as steering committee member, IPC member and publicity chair. Mariana Netto belongs to the roll of honor of the laureates of IFAC France, as recipient of the IFAC Service French Award in 2018.