Mª Belén Prados Suárez studied Computer Science at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática (University of Granada) and has a PhD in Computer Science.

Her professional career began in 2001 when she was granted a scholarship by the Department of Computational Science at the University of Granada, a collaboration that lasted until 2004, year in which she started to work as Assistant Professor at the University of Jaen. Since 2007, she has been a teacher in the Department of Language and Computational Systems at the University of Granada. Her main topics of interest are analysis and image processing, multimedia data recovery, information systems (the healthcare system in particular), and fuzzy logic and approximate reasoning. This is why her line of work focuses on the study of the social role of ICTs and the creation of digital identities and their application to different aspects of education.  Some of these are, for instance, the introduction of ICTs into the computer science and technology curriculum of the Spanish educational system, the application of ICTs to new teaching methodologies, the use of new technologies to assist functional diversity and facilitate the personalization of learning, educational investigation and innovation related to ICTs, the development of digital materials and software to support the processes of teaching and learning (informal learning, MOOCs, social media and learning communities), the use of ICTs for teaching in disadvantaged communities and the promotion of STEM careers.

Currently, her work also includes Medical informatics: interoperability, contextualized access to medical data, healthcare personalization, digital phenotypes, supporting research on pathologies (allegories, intolerances…) and, more recently, on rare diseases.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3980-102X