Elli Kartsakli is a researcher at the Computer Sciences Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). Her research interests revolve around wireless telecommunications and the 5G evolution. She is part of the ELASTIC project, working on how to model the impact of wireless transfer times to the execution of distributed tasks at the network edge. In this interview, Elli talks about her experience as a woman in STEM and as a member of the ELASTIC team.