Mariella Gutiérrez Valenzuela is an Associate Professor at the College of Engineering of the Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Chile, where she has been a member since 2000. She was the College's Dean from 2016–2022. She completed her Magister in Computer Science at Universidad de Concepción, Chile, and her undergraduate studies at the same university. Her research interests lie in the area of databases and geographic information systems. She has collaborated actively with researchers in several disciplines, applying geographic information management and decision support application development to problems in the logistics sector, transportation, climate change effect in urban development, urban regulation, health, and others.