Dr. Izaskun Garrido was born in Bilbao, Spain in 1967. She received an M.Sc. degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Bilbao, an M.Sc. degree in numerical analysis and programming, and a Ph.D. degree in finite elements from Dundee University, Dundee, UK, in 1999. She has held several positions with PIK (Germany), ZIB (Germany), and UiB (Norway). She has been an invited researcher at institutions such as Stanford University and LLNL (U.S.). She is a senior member of the IEEE, belongs to the Constituent Board of the Plasma Group of the Royal Spanish Physical Society, CEA (Comité Español de Automática), and the Automatic Control Group at UPV/EHU. Currently, she is a full professor of systems and control engineering in the Automatic Control and Systems Engineering Department at UPV-EHU. She has supervised several Ph.D. theses, and her present main research interest area is numerical simulation and control applied to wave-power generation plants, as well as fusion.