Carolina Mañoso is an Associate Professor and, since 2023, the Head of the Department of Communication and Control Systems at the School of Computer Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain. She received her M.Sc. degree in Physical Sciences, specializing in Electronics and Automatic Control, from the University of the Basque Country in 1990 and her Ph.D. in Physical Sciences from UNED in 1998. She began her career in industry at MIKROA S. L. and later, in 1993, joined UNED as a predoctoral researcher with an FPI fellowship, completing a research stay at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on optimal and predictive control; autonomous mobile robotics; cyber-physical systems, particularly the Internet of Things (IoT) and LoRaWAN networks; and the implementation and acceptance of emerging technologies in educational contexts. She has contributed to over ten competitive research projects and co-authored more than forty scientific publications. She is a Senior Member of IEEE since 2015, participating in the Robotics and Automation, Education, and Women in Engineering Societies.