Dr. Almudena Díaz Zayas is a researcher at the Universidad de Málaga since 2004 and associate professor since 2021. Her research interests are mobile communication protocols, experimentation platforms and testing methodologies. Díaz has a PhD in telecommunication engineering from the Universidad de Málaga (2009). She participated in national research project related with mobile network developments and international project such as SMEPP, a FP6-IST project in the area of embedded systems, MoTeCo, a Leonardo Da Vinci European Project to developed training curriculum in Symbian OS mobile technology and Fed4Fire, Fed4Fire+ and TRIANGLE European projects addressing the work programme topic Future Internet Research and Experimentation. He is also co-IP in NRG5 and 5GENESIS project. She has co-authored papers in relevant journals in the field of mobile networking and computing, like IEEE Pervasive Computing, Mobile Networks & Applications and Computer Communications, IEEE Internet Computing and IEEE Vehicular Magazine and in relevant conferences like IEEE AINA, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE CCNC, IEEE NOMS and IEEE IM.