Laura Maguire
Cognitive Systems Engineer & researcher, Jeli.io

Laura is a Cognitive Systems Engineer & researcher producing human-centered design
guidance at Jeli.io. Her doctoral work under Dr. David Woods focused on distributed
incident response practices in DevOps teams responsible for critical digital services. She
was a researcher with the SNAFU Catchers Consortium from 2017-2020 and her
research interests lie in resilience engineering, coordination design and enabling
adaptive capacity across distributed work teams. She has presented nationally and
internationally and has numerous published works in the field of incident analysis.
Laura has a Master’s degree in Human Factors & Systems Safety and a PhD in Cognitive
Systems Engineering with minors in Resilience Engineering and Design. As a
backcountry skier and alpine climber, she also studies cognition & resilient performance
in high risk, high consequence mountain environments