Raquel Cedazo was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1981. She received her BS degree in computer science in 2005 and her PhD degree in computer science from the Universidad Politécnica of Madrid (UPM) in 2009. Since 2010, she has been an associate professor at UPM. She has been an administrator with the Francisco Sánchez Astronomical Observatory. She is a main researcher with three citizen science projects funded by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology: the Asteroid Hunters, the Star Counters, and the Sky Sounds. Her research interests include collaborative e-learning, educational web laboratories, online reputation systems, and citizen science.