María José Bleda is a biostatistician (BSc in Statistics (1995) and MSc in Statistics (2001)) at the Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Barcelona, Spain. From 1996 to 2009, her research focused on epidemiology, public health, and clinical trial projects such as pharmacovigilance, tuberculosis epidemiology, neuroepidemiology, epidemiological surveillance, and HIV/AIDS epidemiology. Since 2010, her research has concentrated on statistical methods applied to biomedical chemistry, collaborating on several chemical national and international projects. She has published more that 50 research articles in SCI peer-reviewed journals. María José has a strong interest in applied statistical methods, particularly the application of regression models and techniques for the design of experiments. She has extensive experience in teaching statistical methodology to both undergraduate and graduate university studies.