She is a professor of bioengineering, in the Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation Group of Charles III University of Madrid.
She earned a licenciate (equivalent of a combined bachelor's and master's degree) from the Public University of Navarre in 1997, including a thesis research project on the use of fiber Bragg gratings in spectrometers as an ERASMUS student at King's College London, working there with Vincent A. Handerek.
She went to the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland for a Ph.D., completed in 2002.
Her doctoral dissertation, Nondyadic and nonlinear multiresolution image approximations, was supervised by Michael Unser.
[2] She became a postdoctoral researcher and Torres Quevedo fellow at the Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Técnicas at the University of Navarra, from 2002 to 2005, also holding an adjunct faculty position in the university's engineering school.