Maria Eugenia Beltrán-Jaunsaras

Maria Eugenia (Xenia) Beltrán is Senior R&D Project Manager and Head of Big Data in LifeSTech at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM); Coordinator of PharmaLedger.
Xenia is an Information Systems Engineering and holds an MBA in International Management and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering. Xenia has years of experience Senior Project and Innovation Manager, coordinating large EU co-funded projects and piloting new innovative emerging technologies in small and large demonstrators in the areas of Big Data and Analytics, Language Technology based projects, Health & Wellbeing, Manufacturing, Tourism and e-Commerce. Also, she actively participates in technological platforms, innovation hubs and IT oriented associations. Since 2017 started to work in blockchain related initiatives and participates in several EU funded blockchain enabled projects. Previously to UPM, Xenia worked in consultancy, software and large manufacturing companies.