DR. M. MAGDALENA PAYERAS CAPELLÀ got her title as Telecommunication Engineer (1998) from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and her Ph. D. in Computer Science (2005) from the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB). Her Ph. D. dissertation was awarded with the COIT, Engineers Spanish Association, best Ph. D. thesis in 2005.

She has held several positions in the University of the Balearic Islands since 1998 in the Department of Mathematics and Computer science, currently being Associate Professor and Head of the Telecomunications Engineering degree. She has been head of the Telecommunications Engineer Master. She has taught subjects in grade courses and in several masters. She has directed a Ph.D. Thesis (2013) and is currently directing two more.

Dr. Payeras-Capellà's research is focused primarily in security in communications networks, electronic payments, design of protocols for electronic commerce and secure applications, privacy-preserving applications, electronic ticketing, uses of cryptography, traffic management protocols, technical-legal aspects of electronic commerce and blockchain aplications. Within these lines of research, she has had an active pace of publications in international journals and in international and national conferences. She has been a member of the scientific and organizing committee in several international congresses and has wined three best paper awards for papers presented in conferences. She is author of five book chapters and coauthor of two patents. In the near future, Dr. Payeras- Capellà research intends to be focused on the integration of blockchain technologies in secure and privacy-preserving applications, especially those applications related to electronic commerce, touristic services and smart mobility. She has participated in two European-funded research projects, seven Spanish-funded research projects (including a Consolider-Ingenio Project) having been P.I. of three of them and three Balearic Islands-funded research projects. She is member of the research group SECOM and of the ARES Consolider Excellence Network, a granted network in security and privacy with the objective of encouraging the cooperation between researchers. She has participated in the creation of two spin-offs: the company KEYRON, dedicated to telemedicine, established in 2006 and the company GEDOCU IT Consulting dedicated to documental management, in 2016.