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Ainhoa Berciano is a leading voice in computational thinking and early childhood education, with a focused research agenda on how very young children—starting as early as age three—engage with programming and robotics. Her most cited work, “Alfabetización computacional en educación infantil: Dificultades y beneficios en el aula de 3 años” (2022, 9 citations), provides a foundational analysis of the specific challenges and reasoning skills exhibited by three-year-olds when tackling coding tasks with educational robots. This study is pivotal for curriculum designers and educators seeking to introduce computational literacy in preschool settings. Berciano has further advanced the field by investigating the critical, yet often overlooked, skill of translating between different programming languages. Her 2024 paper on pre-service teachers and her 2023 study on translation errors with the Cubetto robot (each with 2 citations) highlight the cognitive demands of moving between sequential programming languages, a key competency for both students and future educators. By bridging early childhood development with computer science education, Berciano’s work is shaping how we understand and teach problem-solving from the very start of formal schooling.