Paloma Guenes

PhD Candidate in Informatics - Software Engineering at PUC-Rio. Research in human aspects of software engineering, focusing on the Impostor Phenomenon in professionals.

Publications

Impostor Phenomenon in Software Engineers

P. Guenes, R. Tomaz, M. Kalinowski, M. T. Baldassarre and M.-A. Storey, "Impostor Phenomenon in Software Engineers" 2024 IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society (ICSE-SEIS), Lisbon, Portugal, 2024, pp. 96–106.
DOI: 10.1145/3639475.3640114
Preprint: arXiv:2312.03966

Impostor Phenomenon Among Software Engineers: Investigating Gender Differences and Well-Being

P. Guenes, R. Tomaz, B. Trinkenreich, M. T. Baldassarre, M.-A. Storey, and M. Kalinowski, “Impostor Phenomenon Among Software Engineers: Investigating Gender Differences and Well-Being” in Proc. 2025 IEEE/ACM Graduate Experiences in ICSE (GEICSE), 2025, pp. 33–40.
DOI: 10.1109/GEICSE66911.2025.00009
Preprint: arXiv:2502.07914

Awards

Top 3 Master's Dissertation in Brazil

Awarded third place for the best Master's dissertation in Software Engineering Brazil. CBSoft 2024.

Honorable mention

Honorable mention in the thesis and dissertation competition held by the Center for Science and Technology (CTC), Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio).