Maria Victoria Montes earned, from the Universidad de Sevilla, a MSc in Architecture (2001) and a PhD in Architecture (2007). She is now Associate Professor in the Departamento de Construcciones Arquitectónicas II at the Universidad de Sevilla. Her research work is framed within the DATUS-Lab team: Digital Architecture for Sustainability Lab. She has participated in international and national research projects, with total funding exceeding €900,000, obtained through competitive programs such as INTERREG of the European Commission, the Spanish National Research Plan, and the Ecological and Digital Transition Projects of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. She has published over a dozen high-impact international scientific articles, with notable citations: 355 in WoS (h-index = 6) and 480 in Scopus (h-index = 7) up to January 5, 2025. These articles have been featured in prestigious journals like Waste Management, Journal of Building Engineering, Recycling, The Open Construction and Building Technology Journal, and Informes de la Construcción, mostly in open access. In terms of knowledge transfer, she has collaborated with the Construction Cost Base of Andalusia (BCCA) in the development of construction unit prices for various classification system chapters. She has also registered one database (BIM-TBL database, 2022) and four software programs: PRECOST-POP4 (2012), BIM3LCA_structure (2022), BIM3LCA_envelope (2022), and Smart_BIM3LCA_envelope (2022).