Maria Montes-Bayón holds a permanent position as Associate Professor in the Analytical Chemistry Area of the Department of Physical and Analytical Chemistry at the University of Oviedo since April 2008. She did her Master Thesis at the University de Plymouth (UK) and got her PhD in 1999 in Analytical Chemistry within the University of Oviedo supervised by J. I. Garcia Alonso and A. Sanz Medel. In 2000, she joined the research group of Prof. Joseph A. Caruso in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio (USA) as Postdoctoral Fulbright Fellow until July 2002.

In August of the same year she got back to the University of Oviedo as Research Scientist (Ramón y Cajal) in the Analytical Spectrometry Group until 2007. In 2008 she obtained the position of Associate Professor (accreditation as Full Professor, 2014). She is co-author of more than 100 original research publications and reviews, as well as several book chapters. She participates in different research projects (national and regional) through which the research in funded.