is a senior associate professor at the ICAI School of Engineering at Universidad Pontificia Comillas. She serves as the Deputy Director of Research Outcomes at the Institute of Research and Technology and co-leads the Center for Science, Technology, and Religion alongside Jaime Tatay. Sara has authored over seventy academic publications and has directed or participated in more than twenty projects with private companies and public institutions, including the European Commission, the Inter-American Development Bank, and a five-year tenure at JPMorgan in London.
Recognized as a Marshall Memorial Fellow, her research focuses on developing and applying mathematical optimization and artificial intelligence to complex decision-making problems. She specializes in decision-making under uncertainty, decomposition methods, and interpretable machine learning. Sara’s work spans the energy sector — particularly in network design — as well as health and finance. Additionally, she explores the philosophical implications of these technologies, including AI ethics and the impact of artificial intelligence on anthropology. She is also the author of the book “Respuestas al transhumanismo: cuerpo, autenticidad y sentido” (“Responses to Transhumanism: Body, Authenticity, and Meaning”). Through her involvement in interdisciplinary projects and commitment to integrating ethical principles into technological advancements, Sara Lumbreras contributes to both the technical and the ethical discourse surrounding technology.
