Gema Piñero received her M.Sc. from the Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Spain, in 1990, and her Ph.D. from the Technical University of Valencia (UPV), Spain, in 1997, both in Electrical Engineering. She is currently a Full Professor at the UPV. Since 1995 she has led or contributed to 30 private and public funded projects on array signal processing for acoustics and communications, active noise control, sound perception and acoustic sensor networks. Her current research lines cover the application of Artificial Intelligence to sound event detection and virtual sound environments. She has co-authored more than 100 papers in international journals and conferences, serving in the Technical Committee in some of them. From 2005 to 2011 she led the Research Office of the UPV and from 2016 to 2020 she was the Secretary of the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM), the leading research center on electrical engineering of the Valencia region. From 2013 to 2016 she served in the Spanish Chapter of the IEEE Women in Engineering. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2011) and the Imperial College London (2016). She is a founding member of the Spanish Association for Research and Teaching Universitas.