[3][4][5][6][7] In 2024 she was awarded the Dirac Medal (ICTP) jointly with her husband Horacio Casini, Shinsei Ryu and Tadashi Takayanagi.
[9] She is a professor at the Instituto Balseiro of the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo in Argentina where her lectures on special relativity[10] have been filmed and are offered free of charge (in Spanish).
She studied at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) and then moved to the Instituto Balseiro.
[14] On the 2014 visit, Huerta researched entanglement entropy which enlightens aspects of quantum field theory inaccessible with any other approach.
Relative entropy's properties give rise to the Bekenstein dimension, energy levels in field theories and the generalized second law.