CELIA LOPEZ ONGIL

Celia Lopez Ongil is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronic Technology at the University Carlos III of Madrid. She also serves as Acting Director of the University Institute of Gender Studies, Deputy Director of the Institute of Gender Studies, and Deputy Vice-Rector for Internationalization. Her research focuses on wearable technologies with a gender perspective, affective computing for social impact, and embedded systems design. Key projects include the EMPATÍA-CM initiative addressing gender-based violence through multimodal affective computing and the WEMAC dataset for emotion recognition. She leads the Microelectronic Design and Applications (DMA) research group and has contributed to interdisciplinary fields like biomedical sensors, radiation-hardened electronics, and hardware-software co-design.

Education: Ph.D. in Electronics (university unspecified), with a strong background in both technical and gender studies disciplines. Research interests span wearable electronics, gender-inclusive technology development, and ethical AI applications. Her work integrates hardware innovation with social science to address societal challenges, particularly in health monitoring and violence prevention.

Publications emphasize cross-disciplinary methodologies, with over 50 articles in journals like Sensors and IEEE Transactions. Notable contributions include adaptive emotion recognition systems and fault-tolerant embedded architectures. She actively participates in international conferences on technology ethics and gender studies in STEM.

Labs/Teams: Microelectronic Design and Applications (DMA) group, Institute of Gender Studies, and collaborations with OPTOS CubeSat space instrumentation projects.