Blanca Arenas-Ramírez earned her PhD in civil engineering in 2008 at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) in Spain. She is an Associate Professor of Transportation Engineering, Scientific Safety Research, and Mobility and Transport in several master's programs at UPM as well as other universities in South America. She is the Head of Transport Studies and the Vehicle Environmental Impact Unit at Instituto Universitario de Investigación del Automóvil Francisco Aparicio Izquierdo (INSIA-UPM). She has publications in highly ranking journals covering her current research interests, including modelling and data analysis in road safet and the environmental sustainability of vehicles.