Ana M. Aguilera is currecntly a Professor of Statistics at the Department of Statistics and Operation Research, University of Granada, Spain. She received her Degree and Ph.D. Degree in Mathematics from University of Granada in 1990 and 1993, respectively. Her areas of interest cover Stochastic Modeling and Forecasting, Multivariate and ,Categorical Data Analysis, and data driven statistics. In particular, she is specialized in Functional Data Analysis and its applications in different areas as chemometrics, biomechanics and electronisc, among others.