Inés Álvarez received a degree in Computer Science with a specialization in Computer Engineering from the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), Palma de Mallorca, Spain, in 2014 and a master in Computer Engineering from the same university in 2016. She is currently working towards a Ph.D. in Information and Communication Technologies at UIB and she is a Lecturer with the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, UIB. Her research interests include dependable and real-time systems, fault-tolerant distributed systems and dependable communication topologies. Ms. Alvarez has been a Student Member of the IEEE since 2016.