German Lenin Dugarte Peña holds a BS in Systems Engineering from Universidad de Los Andes, a MS in Computer Science and Technology and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology from Carlos III University of Madrid, where he also performs as a Jr. researcher for the Computer Science department. He was a Visitor Scholar at Carnegie Mellon University for Summer-Fall 2017.

His research interests include: software process improvement, value-based software engineering, software engineering in general, software process modelling and simulation, complex systems theory and practice, system dynamics, organizations theory, cognitive modeling and cybernetics.

He has been invited member of The Latin American School of Systems Thinking and Design from 2010, where he performs as General Secretary. He is a member of the Systems Dynamics Society and the SESGE (Sociedad Española de Sistemas Generales).

Reviewer for the Journals:

• Kybernetes
• Industrial Management and Data Systems

Reviewer for the conferences:

• WMSCI - Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
• ICSD - International Conference of the System Dynamics Society
• ICSOFT - International Conference on Software Technologies

 Chair for the conference:

• I Iberoamerican Congress of Systemic Solutions for Organizational Transformation (I CISSTO) (Track: Systemic solutions, Methodologies and Competences of Systems Practice Professionals)

• Software Engineering.
• Projects and Software Management.
• Software Process Improvement.
• Knowledge Capitalization and Management.
• Software Development Agile Approaches.
• Value-based Software Engineering.
• Approaches for Modelling and Simulation of Complex Systems.
• Organizations Theory.
• Intellectual Capital and Asset Management.
• Cybernetics.
• Strategic Planning.
• Software Approaches for supporting Decision Making.
• Cognitive Modeling

2015/2016

• Computer Programming (Getafe). 
• Principles of Software Development (Colmenarejo)

2016/2017 

• Principles of Software Development (Leganés)

2017/2018 

• Principles of Software Development (Leganés)

2018/2019 

• Principles of Software Development (Leganés)