Laura Villa Fernández-Arroyo is engaged in her doctoral research in Advanced Information Technologies at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, as part of the Modeling Ambient Intelligence Research Group (MAmI). Her PhD thesis is called 'Proactivity and Adaptivity of Socially Assistive Robots', financed with a predoctoral contract by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities' FPU 2022 program. She has been working on several research projects. Her research lines are directed towards the creation of affective and proactive agent-robots, incorporating disciplines such as Socially Assistive Robots (SARs), Machine Learning, Conversational Agents, Affective Computing and Cognitive Computing. Her work is distinguished by a focus on the human-centric aspects of technology, aiming to enhance interactions between humans and machines.