Paula Andrea Pérez-Toro is a research scientist at the Chair for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Medicine at the Technical University of Munich. She is also affiliated with the Pattern Recognition Lab at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. Her research focuses on multimodal AI that integrates speech acoustics, text and medical imaging to assess speech and language disorders, with an emphasis on generative models, large language models and approaches that generalise across languages and clinical populations. She serves on the Steering Committee of the International Society for Vocal Biomarkers (ISVB) and the Management Committee of eVoiceNet. Before joining the chair, Paula received her Dr.-Ing. summa cum laude from FAU in 2024 and was awarded the Elsbeth Wendler-Kalsch and ATE doctoral prizes. She has also been a guest researcher at Harvard Medical School and King’s College London.