Elisabete Alberdi holds a bachelor's and a Ph.D. in mathematics. She conducted her doctoral thesis at the School of Engineering in Bilbao (UPV/EHU), in the Department of Applied Mathematics. The title of her doctoral thesis is "Numerical methods for solving stiff differential equations. Application of Finite Element Method discretization." From 1998 to 2011, she worked at Lea Artibai ikastetxea (a cooperative of the Mondragon Group), where she taught courses in baccalaureate, vocational training, and engineering. Since 2011, she has been a Professor at the School of Engineering in Bilbao (UPV/EHU), in the Department of Applied Mathematics. The courses she teaches include computer science, algebra and geometry, and subjects related to modeling at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She has published several scientific and popular articles, books, and proceedings in congresses. She has had research stays at the University of Crete (Greece), the University of Queensland (Australia), KAUST University (Saudi Arabia), the Archimedes Center for Modeling, Analysis, and Computation (Greece), and at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso (Chile). She is a member of the Applied Mathematical Modeling, Statistics, and Optimization (MATHMODE) team.