Beatriz Ortega (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. degree in Physics in 1995 from the Universidad de Valencia, and the Ph.D. in Telecommunications Engineering in 1999 from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. She currently works at the Departamento de Comunicaciones from the Universitat Politècnica de València, where she holds a Full Professorship since 2009 and collaborates as a group leader in the Photonics Research Labs in the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications. She has published more than 200 papers and conference contributions in fibre Bragg gratings, microwave photonics and optical networks. She has got several patents and is also a co-founder of EPHOOX company. She has participated in a large number of European Networks of Excellence and R&D projects and other national ones. Her main research is currently focused on optical devices, optical networks, wireless communications and microwave photonic systems and applications.