Carmen Peláez-Moreno earned her Eng. degree in Telecommunications from the Public Univ. of Navarre (1997) and her PhD from University Carlos III Madrid (2002). She was a visiting researcher at several universities: Univ. of Westminster, London, UK (pregraduate, 1996); Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK (postdoctoral fellowship, 2003); International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, EEUU (postdoctoral fellowship, 2004 and 2006); and Univ. of Trento, Italy (postdoctoral, 2013), including two maternity gaps in 2005 and 2007. She is currently an associate professor in the Signal Theory and Communications department of the Univ. Carlos III Madrid and member of the ICT pannel of the Spanish Research Council (AEI, Agencia Estatal de Investigación) for evaluation of proposals from the National Research Programme. In 2019, she earned the Full Professorship National Habilitation. She has coauthored over 70 papers in JCR indexed journals and conference communications. She is a member of the Gender Studies Institute of the UC3M.