In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Platero and the second or maternal family name is Coello.
Gloria Platero Coello is a Spanish physicist whose research involves the computational simulation of quantum dots and other quantum behavior on nanostructures. She works for the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) as a research professor at the Materials Science Institute of Madrid (ICMM).[1]
Platero was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2022, after a nomination from the APS Division of Quantum Information, "for key theoretical physics contributions to the development of novel quantum circuit functionalities and protocols required to implement quantum information applications in real systems".[3]