Dr Ramona Marfievici

Ramona Marfievici brings over 20 years of deep technical expertise across embedded systems, wireless sensor networks, IoT devices, and communications, in R&D and IoT solutions development. She has led the design, build and deployment of end-to-end IoT systems in the wild and urban environments, leading multidisciplinary teams along the way.

Currently at Digital Catapult, Ramona is the Principal IoT Engineer, advancing and implementing IoT solutions that make a big difference to UK businesses and organisations. Her role involves a range of activities from applying IoT technologies to real-world problems, translating research into prototypes, building demonstrators and pilots, finding early technology adopters, co-creating new testbeds and accelerator programs to help innovators leverage IoT technology.

In addition to her professional role, Ramona serves on industry forums and scientific committees, and technology-focused accelerators. She has been a member of the IoT/1 Committee at the British Standard Institute since 2021 and has served on the SBWT5B PhD fellowship panel at Research Foundation Flanders – FWO since 2020.

Ramona holds a PhD from the University of Trento, Italy and an MSc degree from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca. Prior to joining Digital Catapult, she served as a lecturer in the Computer Science Department at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca and held a senior researcher position at Nimbus Research Centre in Cork, Ireland.