Dr. Clata Matutano Molina holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) and has 15 years of research, academic and industrial experience spanning maritime engineering, offshore wind energy, renewable energy, data analytics and artificial intelligence. She began her research career at the UPM Harbour Laboratory, specialising in experimental design, reduced-scale physical modelling and instrumentation. For over eight years she was a researcher in the Maritime Works Group at the ACCIONA Construction Technology Centre, where she served as Principal Investigator and contributed to competitive FP7 and Horizon 2020 projects, including LEANWIND, PortForward, KRAKEN and SWARMS. Her principal research contributions concern scour protection for offshore wind foundations; more recently, her work has focused on applying data-driven and AI methodologies to engineering problems. She holds the Spanish R3 research accreditation and serves as a reviewer for international peer-reviewed journals. She has more than 12 years of university teaching experience at UPM, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria and Universidad Nebrija, with her teaching rated Excellent under the DOCENTIA quality assessment programme. She is also actively engaged in science outreach and in promoting STEM careers among girls and women.