Camino R. Vela received her MSc degree in mathematics from Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain, in 1986 and her PhD degree in Mathematics from the University of Oviedo, in 1990. She is currently a professor at the Department of Computing at Universidad de Oviedo, Spain. She is the leader of the Intelligent Scheduling and Optimization (iScOp) research group and a deputy vice-rector for national, regional, and university funding under the vice-rector for research at Universidad de Oviedo. Her main research focuses on scheduling problems, soft computing, and metaheuristics. She is currently an editorial board member of the journals Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence. She is also a member of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Spanish Society for Computer Science.