Sonia Fernández-Vidal is a PhD in Quantum Information and Optics. She has worked and collaborated as a researcher in some of the most prestigious centers around the world. She is a professor in the Department of Physics at UAB and co-founder of the tech consulting firm Gauss & Neumann.

In 2017, she was selected by Forbes magazine as one of the 100 most creative people in the world, and in 2018, she was chosen in the Choiseul 100 Leaders Ranking.

Additionally, she is a writer and science communicator. She is the author of the trilogy Through the bolted door, translated into 12 languages. She has also written Quantic Love, Desayuno con partículas, and for younger readers, El Universo en Tus Manos.