Maria Elena de Cos Gómez received a degree in Telecommunication Engineering and a PhD from the University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. She was a Researcher Engineer in collaboration with ACORDE S.A, Santander, from 2004 to 2007. In 2007, she joined the Área de Teoría de la Señal y Comunicaciones, Universidad de Oviedo, Gijón, Spain, where she is currently an associate professor. She was a visiting researcher at IETR Rennes, France, in 2011 and 2014. Her current research interests include metamaterial design and its applications to antennas and microwave circuits, the design of antennas for wearable and RFID systems, radar cross section (RCS) reduction, location techniques, and wireless sensor networks design and applications. She has participated in a great number of research projects and has authored and co-authored over 85 contributions in indexed scientific journals and conferences. She holds a patent on FSSs and AMCs (2011). She has supervised three PhD theses on metasurfaces and antennas and is currently supervising another one. She was named an outstanding IEEE AWPL reviewer (2017-2018). Dr. de Cos Gómez has been an Associate Editor for IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters since 2018, for the International Journal of Antennas and Propagation (IJAP) sine 2014, and for "IoT" and "Telecom" MDPI since 2020. Since 2024, she has served as reviewer panel member for the Spanish State research Agency (AEI).