Guadalupe Vadillo finished her Industrial Engineering studies at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) in 2001. After working in private enterprise (2 years), she started her academic career and defended her doctoral thesis at UC3M with the qualification of Excellent Cum Laude in 2007. She was awarded with the Extraordinary Doctorate Prize of the UC3M in 2008/2009, and her thesis won the Third Prize in the II Contest for Doctoral Theses organised by the Official College of Industrial Engineers of Madrid in 2007. Guadalupe Vadillo is currently the coordinator of a European Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Staff Exchanges project, within the framework of the Excellent Science section of the Horizon Europe programme (DIAGONAL project), which will run from 2023 to 2027. This project is made up of ten universities and research centres: four European institutions, four American, one Australian and one Brazilian and aims to generate networks to promote the exchange of knowledge by encouraging the mobility of its members through research stays and dissemination activities. Guadalupe Vadillo has also been coordinator of several work packages in different European Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions projects and director of different national research projects obtained in competitive public calls. She has also published a total of 26 articles in JCR-indexed journals. Guadalupe Vadillo is currently director of the degree in Industrial Technologies Engineering at UC3M and carries out teaching and research tasks in the Department of Mechanics of Continuous Media and Theory of Structures at the University of Madrid. Her main hobbies are travelling, going to the cinema, theatre and other artistic activities.