MARÍA CAMPO-VALERA was born in Santa Marta, Colombia, in 1984. She received a BSc degree in sound engineering from the San Buenaventura University, Bogotá, Colombia, in 2009. In 2016, she received her MSc Degree in acoustic engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain. In 2020, she received the PhD Degree from the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT), Spain. In January 2021, she was a postdoctoral researcher with the Group of Electromagnetism Applied to Telecommunications (GEAT) at UPCT, working on the development of educational initiatives for the manufacture of low-cost leaky-wave antennas. In 2021, she was also a visiting researcher at the Escuela Naval de Cadetes Almirante Padilla (ENAP), Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. In January 2022, she joined the University of Málaga, Spain, as a postdoctoral researcher with the Communications Engineering Department. She was awarded a competitive 2-year grant, named Margarita Salas (fully funded by the European Commission). Sinse 2025, she has held the position of associate professor at the Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, Spain. Her current research interests include signal processing, sensor design, nonlinear acoustic, underwater acoustic communications and antennas.