Whilst she was at high school she was interested in dance and considered becoming a professional ballet dancer.
Whilst at UNAM Fuentes won a competition to spend a summer at Fermilab and she decided that she wanted to continue working in physics.
Fuentes earned her doctoral degree at Imperial College London in 2003 under the supervision of Peter Knight and Vlatko Vedral.
[5][6] She was appointed an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship to join Technische Universität Berlin.
[8] Fuentes was awarded an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Career Acceleration Fellowship and joined the University of Nottingham.
[9] In 2015 Fuentes joined the University of Vienna where she is a member of the theoretical quantum optics group.
[13][14] Unlike many other prominent physicists, Fuentes rejected financial support from Jeffrey Epstein, citing ethical reasons.
[15] Fuentes has spoken at New Scientist Live, where she discussed building equipment for quantum teleportation.
[16] She has worked with the expressionist artist Benjamin Arizmendi on an art - science project entitled "The Aesthetics of Entanglement".