Melanie Schranz is a senior researcher at Lakeside Labs, involved in the acquisition, leadership and applied research in different swarm-related projects (e.g. CPSwarm, BugWright2, and SWILT). Melanie’s major research interests cover engineering of swarm intelligence for cyber-physical systems. Before that, she worked as an innovation manager in industry and as a researcher at the NES Institute of the University of Klagenfurt.