She was the first person to be named a professor of the Compostela Faculty of Physics, and became an international authority in microcalorimetry, which is a technique for the measurement of very small quantities of heat.
She also earned a certificate of higher studies at the University of Marseille (France).
She furthered her studies at the University of Manchester (UK) (where she was the first woman to be appointed a visiting research professor) and at the Institute of Microcalorimetry and Thermogenesis of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Marseille.
[3] In 1999 she created the multidisciplinary THOR group, to develop computer tools to fight against forest fires in all their stages in Galicia and Santiago de Compostela.
[1] Paz-Andrade authored more than 200 scientific publications and supervised 39 doctoral theses.