Belén Notario Collado has a university degree in Physics, and a PhD in Physics, in the materials science branch (University of Valladolid, Spain). Since 2016, she is the technician in charge of the Microscopy and Microcomputed Tomography Lab at the National Research Center of Human Evolution in Burgos (Spain). Since then, she has been in charge of the direction of the laboratory and its proper functioning. In it, samples that cover different branches of science are analyzed and studied: from paleoanthropology and geology, to materials science, medicine and biology, among others.