Dr. Coral Ortiz graduated with a Bachelor's in Agricultural Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM, Spain) in 1996 and completed a Ph.D. degree in Agricultural Engineering at the UPM in 2000. She worked as an assistant professor at the UPM for three years in the field of rural engineering and collaborated with the KU Leuven (Belgium) and the Agricultural Public Research Institute IVIA (Spain). Since 2000, she has worked as a Lecturer in the Rural and Agri-Food Engineering Department at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV, Spain). She is currently carrying out research on farm machinery and on occupational risk prevention in agriculture systems. She has been working on 20 competitive research projects and has 32 JCR research publications. She lectures on farm machinery, electrical installations in agricultural premises, postharvest handling, and occupational risk prevention in the agricultural sector. She has co-directed 2 Ph.D. theses, supervised 24 Master's theses, and 32 final degree theses. She is currently the Secretary of the Spanish Society of Agricultural Engineering (www.seaging.com).