Prof. Dr. Asunción Gómez-Pérez is Vice-Rector for Research, Innovation and Doctoral Studies. at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). She is Fellow of the European Academy of Science (2018). She is Full professor on Artificial  Intelligence. She has received the Award ARITMEL - National Prize of Computer Science 2015, the Annual Award of Investigation of the UPM (2015) and the National Prize Ada Byron for the Technologist Woman in its second edition (2015). She leads the Ontology Engineering Group. Her research areas include:  Ontological Engineering, Semantic Web, Linked Data, Multilingualism in Information and knowledge management.   

Her research experience is also applied to research programs at national and international level with public and private funds. She has published more than 300 publications and she has been supervisor of 22 Ph.D thesis.

Projects: She has directed significant amount I+D+i research projects from the National Plan, European projects and private contracts. She has coordinated 5 European research projects and has taken part like Main Researcher of the UPM in 22 European research projects.