P. Fraga-Lamas (Senior Member, IEEE) is a senior researcher and lecturer at the Department of Computer Engineering, Universidade da Coruña (UDC). She received a M.Sc. degree in computer engineering from the University of A Coruña (UDC) in 2009, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in the joint program Mobile Network Information and Communication Technologies from five Spanish universities, in 2011 and 2017, respectively. She holds an MBA and postgraduate studies in business innovation management and sustainability. She has over 90 contributions in indexed international journals, conferences, and book chapters, and three patents. She has also been participating in over 30 research projects funded by the regional and national government as well as research and development contracts with private companies. She is actively involved in many professional and editorial activities, acting as a reviewer, an advisory board member, a topic/guest editor of top-rank journals, and a TPC member of international conferences. Her current research interests include mission-critical scenarios, industry 4.0/industry 5.0, the Internet of Things (IoT), cyber-physical systems (CPS), augmented/mixed reality (AR/MR), fog and edge computing, blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT), and cybersecurity.