Matilde Santos is currently a Full Professor of System Engineering and Automatic Control at the Computer Sciences Faculty, University Complutense of Madrid (UCM), Spain. She received her BSc and MSc degrees and her PhD in Physics from the UCM, Spain. She is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. She belongs to the Council of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) and is the Vice-President of the Spanish Committee of Automatic Control (CEA). She has published many papers in international scientific journals and several book chapters. She has supervised more than 15 PhDs. She has worked on several national, European, and international research projects, leading some of them. She received several national and international awards. She serves as an Associate Editor for different scientific journals. She is involved in different activities with social impact, being invited as a speaker at different events for science outreach and STEM initiatives. Her current research interests include the application of artificial intelligence techniques to different fields, mainly focusing on intelligent control, modeling and simulation, autonomous industrial vehicles, and wind energy.