Licensed in Biochemistry from the Universidad Rovira y Virgili (2004) and doctor in Biochemistry with mention in European Doctorate from the same University (2009). In addition, she has completed a postgraduate degree in "Design and Statistics in Health Sciences" from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (2011-2012). Since 2013 she has been a full-time professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology (URV) and teaches subjects as the person responsible for the degrees of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biotechnology and Chemistry. In 2018 she obtained the position of Lector Serra Húnter professor in the same Department and has been accredited for 2 sections (five-year periods) of teaching. She is currently an Associate Professor and the Coordinator of the Degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Double Degree in Biotechnology and Biochemistry and Cellular Biology at the Faculty of Chemistry of the URV.
Moreover to his teaching responsibility, she has co-directed 4 doctoral theses, defended in 2015, 2018, 2020 and 2022; in addition to various master's and degree projects. Currently, she directs two doctoral theses that will be defended in 2025. At national level, she has participated in four research projects funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, and in a project set up by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III. As principal researcher, she has directed two competitive projects, one funded by the Institut de Salut i Investigació Pere Virgili (2010-2012) and another funded by the URV-Banco Santander (2014-2015). She is currently Co-IP of a competitive project awarded in the 2021 call for aid to Knowledge Generation Projects of the Ministry of Science and Innovation for 4 years. Her current research as a member of the MoBioFood Research Group is focused on the study of the bioactivity of natural food components, through their direct action on the gastrointestinal tract, improving metabolic homeostasis distorted by obesogenic diets and/or aging.
As a postdoctoral researcher, she worked for 4 years (2009-2013) in the Research Unit of the Hospital Juan XXIII of Tarragona with a contract funded by CIBER Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition. Her main area of study was obesity and associated diseases, from a clinical and molecular point of view. In particular, the research group is focused on adipocyte and hepatocyte biology, and their link to diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. All of this research was carried out in a human model of extreme obesity, and in primary cultures of human visceral adipocytes.
Likewise, during the post-doctoral period she was involved in the development of a line of research in the field of cancer in collaboration with a clinical research group. The collaboration is maintained and has so far led to more than 10 publications in international scientific journals and several contributions to conferences. She was also a member of the research team in a project of the Aspciación Española Contra el Cáncer granted in 2018. The main objective of this project was to find predictive factors of response to radiotherapy associated with metabolic disorders present in tumors.
With the aim of getting international experience, she has carried out various research stays, the first at the Institute of General Pathology of the University of Rome in 2009 and during the spring of 2016 and 2017, he carried out stays at Imperial College London in the Immunogenic division, both lasting 3 months. In 2022, she completed a 12-month stay at the Center of Computational Biology at Duke-NUS University in Singapore.
During his scientific career she has published three book chapters, 7 review articles and more than 70 research articles in indexed international journals (75% in Q1 and 22% in D1) with 2241 total citations and an average of 29 citations per article, which produce an h-index of 27 (2023.06.23). She has accredited 3 research sections (six-year periods) and the I3 Certification from the Ministry of Universities.