Ana Mª Lorente Lafuente is Industrial Engineer since 1994 and holds a PhD. in Mechanical engineering from the University of Zaragoza since 2013. She is member of the ISO/TC178/WG10 since 2009 representing AENOR as technical expert. After twelve years of professional activity in the private sector, which included the lift company Wittur A.G, the author joined the department for development of mechatronic products of ITA in 2006.

In 2011 the author moved to Germany and is currently working at the Institute of Technical Thermodynamics of RWTH Aachen University (Germany) with a scholarship from the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam.