Ana Carpio earned her PhD from Université Paris VI (1993) and was a postdoctoral researcher at University of Oxford (1996-97). She received the ‘I SEMA (Spanish Society of Applied Mathematics) award for young researchers’ (1998). Since 2006 she is a Full Professor of Applied Mathematics at Universidad Complutense, where she leads the group ‘Mathematics applied to physical and biological systems’. Her research interests include computational biology and materials science, numerical analysis, partial differential equations and inverse problems with applications in biomedicine and geophysics. Some contributions: L1 regularity for Navier-Stokes equations through Hardy spaces, depinning of nonlinear waves in discrete systems, computational models of defects in Graphene, topological derivative based inversion methods, uncertainty quantification in elastography, analysis of kinetic models for plasmas and for angiogenesis, computational models of cancerous cell invasion and of biofilm/tissue development. She has spent sabbatical periods at Stanford, Harvard and the Courant Institute of New York University.