Dr. Jose Luis de la Vara
- Membership:
- Associate member
- Working group:
- Spanish working group
- Country:
- Spain
- Website: http://www.delavara.es

Dr. Jose Luis de la Vara is an Associate Professor at the Computing Systems Department of the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). Within the overall area of Systems and Software Engineering, his main research interests include Requirements Engineering, Model-Driven Engineering, Safety-Critical Systems, and Empirical Software Engineering.
Dr. de la Vara received a BEng degree in Computer Science (2006), a MSc degree in Software Engineering, Formal Methods and Information Systems (2008), and a PhD degree in Computer Science (2011) from the Technical University of Valencia (Spain). Prior to joining the University of Castilla-La Mancha, he worked at the Research Centre on Software Production Methods of the Technical University of Valencia (2005-2011), the Software Engineering Department of Simula Research Laboratory (Norway) (2011-2015), and the Computer Science Department of Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain) (2015-2019).
Dr. de la Vara has contributed to over 100 scientific publications on Systems and Software Engineering topics, to over 30 R&D projects in collaboration with over 60 companies, and to over 150 scientific activities through their organisation, programme, review, and evaluation committees. He is also regularly involved in technology transfer activities.
More information about his work can be found at www.delavara.es.