In this episode I talk with Laura M. Castro. We talk her introduction to Erlang, Final Project and Ph.D. around Erlang, Research and Teaching using Erlang and Elixir, the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation, Code Beam Lite, Erlang Workshops and more.Our Guest, Laura M. Castro.@lauramcastro on Twitterlauramcastro on Githubhttps://lauramcastro.github.io/AnnouncementsElixirConf EU is taking place the 9th and 10th of June, with training running the 6th-8th. For more information and to get your tickets visit https://www.elixirconf.eu/.:clojureD is taking place June 11th in Berlin, Germany. Visit https://clojured.de/ for more information and to submit your proposal.Code BEAM Lite A Coruña is taking place in A Coruña, Spain on the 11th of June. Visit https://www.codebeamcorunha.es to register, or to find out more.Lambda Days 2022 has been moved to the 28th and 29th of July in Krakow, Poland. Visit lambdadays.org to keep up to date.Some of you have asked how you can support Functional Geekery, in that vein, Functional Geekery now has a Patreon Page.If that is one of the ways you would like to show your support, you can find out more at https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery.Topics [@About LauraUniversidade da CoruñaErlang during UniversityOCamlJavaCPrologOCaml being completely different, even in second year of UniversityContact with computers as typewritersBasicStudying Computer Engineering as good profession career trackCourse on Functional Programming in 4th yearFirst Exposure to Erlang“I was a Lego Kid”“It will do the things I tell it to do”End of Degree ProjectWriting a Risk Management system in ErlangModeling policies as processesPattern MatchingDoing Research in the Computer Engineering worldPh.D. on what Functional Programming helped put on the tableDialyzerSeeing what it would be like to work in academia and the research worldDelphi“What did functional programming bring to the table?”State in ProcessesPattern MatchingRecursions“[…] they seem straight forward 20 years later”Matthew Flatt – A Racket Perspective on Research, Education, and ProductionKeeping research close to industryTeaching Erlang in her Software Architecture course“They’ve never seen really distributed architectures”Automatic Validation and Testing“You specify what you want to test”ProperDesigning for Scalability with Erlang and OTPWhatsAppSuffering from the Secrecy of Using ErlangErlang Ecosystem FoundationOverview of the Erlang Ecosystem FoundationEducation Working GroupOTP BehaviorsEctoUniversity of Kent Erlang Master Classes; Class 1; Class 2; Class 3exercismErlang CampErlang and OTP in ActionCode BEAM Lite A CoruñaCode BEAM Twitter AccountCode BEAM A Coruña Twitter AccountSponsorships for Code BEAM LiteErlang WorkshopsBrujo BenavidesErlang Workshop with Laura and BrujoHankRebar 3Property Based Testing Training Workshop coming soonTelegramAs always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.