María Fernanda Cabrera-Umpiérrez, is Telecommunication Engineer, with a PhD in Biomedical Engineering, working as Associate Professor at the Telecommunication School of the Technical University of Madrid. Maria has been involved in European Research Programmes since 1998 and has been responsible for the concept development and coordination of large multi-disciplinary national and international projects. She has been coordinator of the Integrated Project AEGIS and she is is currently the project coordinator of TAG CLOUD project. She has acted as project coordinator, technical or quality manager of 4 research projects funded by the European Commission.
She has participated in over 30 EU projects so far. Her field of expertise covers a wide range of applications in the domains of the ICT applied to different sectors like health and social inclusion, including personalisation of services and content, ambient intelligence framework services, application development for mobile phones and accessibility of ICT. She is the author of more than 100 scientific papers in national and international journals and conferences.