[1] Her parents were Montserrat (née Inglada) and Francesc Muntañola i Puig, who owned a timber warehouse and was mayor of L'Ametlla del Vallès for two months in 1939.
[1] Due to the Yugoslav Wars, her research access to foreign funding was restricted and she received her salary and retirement pension in checks of varying cashability.
[3] She also specialized in phytopathology, with her contributions to the latter field including improvements to public nutrition with her studies on the prevalence and prevention of fungal crop diseases.
[3][a] In the 1980s, she wrote the mycology textbook Opšta mikologija, which achieved widespread usage in Serbia and was also the first Serbian-language "comprehensive presentation of the fungi kingdom", before later being translated to Spanish and Catalan.
[1] However, she still kept a Spanish passport even after she moved to Serbia, and she often did academic work in her native Catalonia, with examples including her lectures in fungal phytopathology and her research on fungi in local boxwood.