María Rico-Vázquez is a PhD student in Communication at the Universidade de Vigo and her research focuses on intralingual live subtitling for television in Spain, including both respoken and automatic subtitling. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Translation and Interpreting (2013-2017) and a Master’s degree in Multimedia Translation (2017-2018), both from the aforementioned university.

She has worked along with the Spanish Centre of Subtitling and Audiodescription (CESyA) and the Spanish public TV broadcaster (TVE) assessing the quality of respoken and automatic live subtitling, respectively. She is part of two Spanish-government-funded projects dealing with the quality of real-time subtitling on television: QuaLiSpain and QuaLiSub. Her studies have also allowed her to work as part of the UVigo team for ILSA, a EU-funded project focused on interlingual respeaking. Currently, she is a member of the international research group GALMA. She has been recipient of predoctoral funding from the Universidade de Vigo and the Xunta de Galicia, and she has received two Academic Excellence awards granted by these two institutions.