[1] She is an associate professor in the Arizona State University School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences.
She moved to Tufts University in the US for graduate study in mathematics, earning a master's degree in 2005 and completing her Ph.D. in 2009.
[2] Her doctoral dissertation, Multilevel Methods for Discrete Ill-Posed Problems: Application to Deblurring, was supervised by Misha Kilmer.
[2][3] After postdoctoral research with Michael Ortiz at the California Institute of Technology, Español took an assistant professorship at the University of Akron in 2012, and was tenured as an associate professor there in 2018.
[1] She is a 2024 recipient of the Deborah and Franklin Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.