Susana González-Martínez is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral researcher at the Department of World Cultures, University of Helsinki, Finland, where she investigates the interrelation between women's spirituality and creativity. She serves as the President of the Metal Music Studies Spain Association as well as Associate Editor of the Metal Music Studies journal. She is the host of the VII International Society for Metal Music Studies Biennial Research Conference and has organized four meetings of the Rock & Metal Encounter Conference. She has led the community-based research project Breakthrough Ritual on gender barriers in the international metal music scene and served on the Scientific Committee for the UNAM International Gender Conference and as a juror for the Laureana Wright Prize for best feminist research.