Beatriz Lopez graduated in Computer Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1986. Two years later she joined the Artificial Intelligence Research Group of the Spanish Scientific Research Council where she received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Technical University of Catalonia in 1993 for the work ""Case-base reasoning of strategic plans."" From that point on, her research interest has always been around case-based reasoning and planning and scheduling, now including optimization and learning in distributed environments. She was associate professor from 1992-1995 and 1998-2000 at the Rovira Virgili University and has served as a Computer Science Engineer in several private companies. In February 2011, she co-founded Newronia, a spin-off company from the University of Girona. Since 2000, she has been a senior lecturer in the Department of Electronics, Electricity, and Automation Engineering at the University of Girona. Taught courses include Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, in which case-based reasoning is embedded. She is member of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence (member of ECCAI) and several scientific committees.