Maribel Glez Vasco is Full Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), where she teaches and researches in adversarial resistant cryptography with access to quantum computing. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Royal Mathematical Society (RSME) since 2017. She has been working for more than 20 years in Mathematical Cryptography, collaborating with different national and international centres (Philips Crypto B.V:, IAKS Institute Karlsruhe, Florida Atlantic University, Imdea Software). She is author/co-author of more than 60 publications, co-author of two patents and member of the editorial team of several international scientific journals. She is also currently leading the Spanish node of the project "Secure Communication via Classical and Quantum Technologies", funded by NATO's Science for Peace and Security Programme. She is particularly interested in disseminating and raising awareness about the importance of security and privacy, and in this field she has collaborated in the series "Desafíos Criptográficos", published by the newspaper El País in 2022, as well as being co-author, together with Prof. Anabel González-Tablas, of the card game CryptoGo. In her spare time she likes to travel, do yoga and listen to (almost!) any kind of music.