Maria M. Seron was born in Rosario, Argentina in 1963. She received the Electronic Engineer degree from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina in 1988 and the Ph.D. degree from The University of Newcastle, Australia in 1996. From 1988 to 1992 she was a lecturer at the Department of Electronic Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina. She held post-doctoral positions with the Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Newcastle, Australia, with the Centre for Systems Engineering and Applied Mechanics (CESAME), Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, and with the Center for Control Engineering and Computation, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. From 1999 to 2002 she was an Associate Professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina.

Dr. Seron is currently an Australian Research Fellow with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Newcastle, Australia.

She is co-author of the book "Fundamental Limitations in Filtering and Control", Springer, 1997, and of more than 30 technical papers.