M. Amparo Vila is Full Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Granada since 1992. She was previously an associate professor and analyst programmer of the computer centre at the same university. Her research and teaching interests are related to the area of databases and intelligent information systems, including the treatment of imprecision in information systems using fuzzy logic, knowledge discovery in databases using soft computing techniques, and ubiquitous computing and knowledge mobilization. She has been the advisor of 19 doctoral theses, is responsible for more than 10 research projects, and she has published more than 80 papers in SCI journals. She has been part of quality assessment processes acting as evaluator and president of various evaluation committees for different national administrations. She is the head of the group TIC174 (Databases and Intelligent Information Systems) since its inception in 2000.