Sonia Martínez Díaz is a Spanish mechanical engineer whose research applies control theory to the coordinated motion of robot swarms and mobile wireless sensor networks.
[1] She is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.
[3] She has a licenciatura in mathematics from the University of Zaragoza,[4] awarded in 1997,[5] and she completed a Ph.D. in engineering mathematics at Charles III University of Madrid in 2002,[2][3] working with Manuel de León Rodríguez [es] of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
[1][6] After working as a visiting assistant professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, she came to the US on a Fulbright Fellowship for postdoctoral research with Francesco Bullo at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and University of California, Santa Barbara.
[2] She took her faculty position at the University of California, San Diego in 2005,[2][3] and became a full professor there in 2014.