Head of the Division of Coordination, Evaluation and Scientific and Technical Follow-up at the State Research Agency (SRA).
She manages the evaluation and supervision of all the programs and calls of the SRA. She worked as a researcher in the field of virology until the year 2003, in which she joined the National Evaluation and Prospective Agency (ANEP), as director from 2005 to 2012. In 2013, she started a new line of work in the field of health in the sport, in particular in the field of the physical activity and its association with chronic diseases.
PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the Autonomous University of Madrid, she made her doctoral thesis at the Center of Molecular Biology Severo Ochoa and postdoctoral stays at the New York University Medical Center (New York, USA, 1986-1989) and the Institute Pasteur (Paris, France, 1989-1991).