María Nogal is an Assistant Professor in Delft University of Technology (Netherlands). Having completed her Degree and Masters in Civil Engineering with a specialisation in Structures, she worked in the engineering industry for six years. María subsequently studied an M.S. in Researching Civil Engineering and finished her Ph.D. thesis on Traffic modelling, which was awarded the Spanish and the International Abertis Prize. Since then, she has investigated different probabilistic, algebraical and optimisation approaches applied to a number of relevant problems of Structural Engineering and Transportation Engineering. In 2014 she was awarded the XIV Talgo Award for Technological Innovation, for her innovative engineering solution to the high-speed railway infrastructure. In recent years, she has focused her research on both, the analysis of the resilience of interconnected systems, involving land transport networks and their critical infrastructure, suffering from extreme weather and climate change, and the Structural System Identification and the dynamic response of structural systems.