Patricia Sánchez-González is an assistant professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, as well as the director of the “Surgical training and image guided surgery” laboratory of the Center for Biomedical Technology. She received a PhD in Biomedical Engineering at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Her areas of research experience include: (1) image processing, (2) virtual and augmented reality applied to the definition and development of medical simulators and (3) development of e-learning and video-based authoring tools and applications. In recent years, she has participated in 15 national research projects and 10 European research projects. She has published more than 50 journal articles, more than 120 congress articles and 4 book chapters. She is a member of the Spanish Society for Biomedical Engineering since 2007 and has participated in the scientific boards of several international congresses.