After obtaining a master degree in Human Cytogenetics at the Indiana University (US, 1993), she defended her PhD thesis in Human Genetics (UAB, 2000). In 2007, she was granted a Ramon y Cajal grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science, which allowed her to start working at the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) as a tenure-track researcher. During her career as a researcher, she has achieved several relevant scientific merits such as papers and projects, was invited to be reviewer of international journals, funding agencies and was appointed as member of the clinical ethical committee and Chair of the animal research ethics committee. In 2011, she finished the master of Leadership and Management of the Science at the University Pompeu Fabra (IDEC, 2011) and since 2013, she is an Executive Master in Public Administration (ESADE-Ramon Llull University (EMPA, 2013)). In 2009, she started to combine her research career with management responsibilities; first, she started to work as a Scientific Associate for the IDIBELL (Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute) Direction and also as  Coordinator of the IDIBELL Core Facilities. From 2013 to 2016, she was appointed Head of the Management Research Unit at ICO. Since March 2016, she is the Strategy director at IDIBAPS.