She earned her master's degree in biological sciences with Larry Gilbert at UT Austin and her PhD in insect systematics at the Department of Entomology with Charles Mitter at University of Maryland at College Park.
[1] In 1999, Dr. Solis served as associate dean of the College of Math, Science, and Technology on a year-long detail to the University of Texas at Brownsville.
She also served as the acting associate director for the ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Center for a brief time in 2011.
[1] Dr. Solis is an expert in snout moths with more than 100 publications and has worked to upgrade the Pyraloidea collection at the National Museum of Natural History to 20th-century standards.
[4] While conducting fieldwork in Northern Mexico she assisted with development of an organismal program for the South Texas Engineering, Math, and Science program for high school students funded by National Aeronautical Space Administration in collaboration with the Gorgas Science Foundation.