Daniela Salazar Marín has been a judge of the Constitutional Court of Ecuador since February, 2019. She served as Vice President of the Court between 2019 and 2022. She is also a law professor at Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) in Quito, Ecuador and a lecturer at graduate level in Universities in Ecuador, Colombia and Argentina.

Before being appointed as a judge, Daniela Salazar Marín was Vice Dean of the USFQ Law School’s and Co-Director of the USFQ's Legal Clinic. She received her law degree from USFQ and a master's degree (LL.M) from Columbia University in New York. She obtained a Fulbright scholarship in relation to her studies at Columbia University.

Daniela Salazar Marín has worked as a human rights specialist for the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, for which she received a Rómulo Gallegos scholarship. She also worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In addition, she has been a consultant for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, UNESCO, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the International Red Cross, Human Rights Watch, and the Center for Studies in Freedom of Expression and Access to Information, among others.

She has published articles on the relationship between international human rights law and constitutional law; the impact of constitutional design on the rule of law; criminalization of social protest; freedom of expression on the internet; rights of migrants and refugees; and rights of indigenous peoples, among others.

Daniela Salazar Marín was named Distinguished Senior Research Fellow in the Constitutional Studies Program at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a member of the Academic Section of Legal Sciences of the Ecuadorian House of Culture Benjamin Carrión. She won the Alumni Awards 2023 in the “public sector” category awarded by USFQ University, as well as the Honorable Mention “Dolores Cacuango” in the “public sphere” category in commemoration of International Women's Day, awarded by UTE University.