Research director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). She is the founder and head of the interdisciplinary team New Approaches in Radiotherapy (NARA); based at the Institut Curie (France). The main research pathway of the NARA team is the conception and development of innovative methods in radiotherapy, with the aim of reducing its toxicity. One of its main projects is radiotherapy with proton mini-beams, funded by the European Union via an ERC consolidator grant. Yolanda Prezado is a clinical medical physicist (Spain, France) with a multidisciplinary background. She has developed her career mainly in the field of radiotherapy, first at the University Hospital of Salamanca (Spain), then at the Biomedical Line of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (Grenoble, France) and, since 2011, at the CNRS. She has been chair of the scientific committee of the European Federation of Medical Physicists and is the deputy spokesperson of the International Biophysics Collaboration. Her work in proton therapy has been rewarded with the Mr et Mme Peyre prize of the French Academy of Sciences in 2021.