María Jesús Vázquez Gallo has a doctorate in Mathematics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She works as professor of Applied Mathematics at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ETSI de Caminos, Canales y Puertos). Previously, she had teaching and research positions at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and she has completed stays at: Stony Brook University, Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Università degli Studi di Milano and University of Durham.
He has given outreach and research seminars at various universities, highlighting the COW (Cambridge-Oxford-Warwick) seminar on Algebraic Geometry, the central area of his research. He currently belongs to the UPM research group “Geometry and its Applications”.