Prof. Belén Gavela is currently a full professor of Theoretical Physics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), and a member of IFT-UAM/CSIC (Institute for Theoretical Physics) of which she is a founding member. Her research interests focus mainly on phenomenology of particle physics, using as preferred tool effective field theories. She has worked in particular on Higgs physics, neutrino physics and at present on axion and ALP (axion-like-particle) physics.