Laura Ortiz Martín, (PhD in Physics, Universidad Complutense, 2018) is currently an associate professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) at Industrial Engineering School and a member of the Quantum Information and Computation Group and the Center of Computational Simulation (CCS). Her research interests have covered many aspects of Quantum Information topic. During her PhD, she has worked in topological quantum computations, proposing new topological codes and ways to do error correction with them. As a PhD student, she has done a research stay for four months at Boston College, to learn how to deal with topological codes using tensor networks. After finishing the PhD, obtaining the Springer Outstanding Thesis prize , she became a Postdoc at Hebrew University specializing on quantum sensing with NV centers. As a result of her research, she produces 6 articles, all of them published in international and high impact journals, one of them has been selected for Virtual Special Issue on Women in Physics 2017. Currently, her research interest is in protocols in Quantum Communications. She is specializing in primitives beyond Quantum Key Distribution, i.e., quantum oblivious transfer. She is also the director of two PhD students and several Master theses.