Marina Mosquera Martínez has a PhD in Prehistory from the UCM of Madrid (1995). She has been a member of the Atapuerca Project research team since 1987, a team that was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research in 1997. Since that same year, she has been working at the Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona (URV), attached to the Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES). Her work has focused on investigating the evolution of lithic technology during the Lower and Middle Pleistocene, the first human dispersals in Eurasia, and the evolution of human cognition. She has been Principal Investigator of several ministerial projects, among which the Atapuerca subproject at IPHES stands out since 2018, with Eudald Carbonell. She has published more than 70 articles, is co-author of a university manual and four popular books:  Las claves del pasado, la llave del futuro (2000, Arola eds.), El precio de la inteligencia (2012, Ed. Crítica), La caza en la evolución humana (2022, Ed. Almuzara) y Mujeres de la Prehistoria (2023, Salvat Eds.)