She is an associate professor at Rovira i Virgili University, in the Department of Chemical Engineering.
Sales-Pardo earned a Bachelors of Science in physics from the University of Barcelona in 1998.
She then earned a PhD in physics from the University of Barcelona in 2002, advised by Felix Ritort.
In 2003, she became a post-doctoral fellow at the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at Northwestern University.
She obtained the Fulbright scholarship in 2004 for two years, and in 2008 became a research assistant professor at Northwestern University.