Irene Díaz received a Mathematics degree from the University of Oviedo, Spain, in 1995 and a Ph.D. from the University Carlos III of Madrid in 2001. After two years working at the University Carlos III, she joined the University of Oviedo in 1999 where she was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008 and to Full Professor in 2019. Her main research topics are focused on fuzzy sets extensions, fusion functions, machine learning, image processing, and precision medicine. She is currently the main researcher of a project in the Spanish Science Program. In addition, she has been in charge of research projects funded by private entities. She has authored more than 150 works in conferences and international journals, with around 40 of them in journals of the first quartile of JCR. She is Associate Editor of the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, a member of the editorial board of some other journals, and Topic Editor of Mathematics.