Marina Zapater is an Associate Professor at the REDS Institute at the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO) since 2020. She was a post-doctoral Research Associate in the Embedded System Laboratory (ESL) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, from 2016 to 2020. She received her Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, in 2015. Her research interests include thermal, power, and performance design and optimization of complex heterogeneous architectures, from embedded AI-enabled edge devices to high-performance computing processors; and energy efficiency in servers and data centers. In these fields, she has co-authored more than 75 papers in top-notch conferences and journals and has been PI and co-PI in several national and international projects with industrial and academic partners.