She did five years of international post-doctoral experience, funded by a Marie Curie Intra-European fellowship and several national programs of investigation, to develop biomaterials surfaces using physical and chemical methods.
In 2008, she incorporated as a Ramón y Cajal Investigator at the faculty of Pharmacy of the Complutense University of Madrid, in one of the most prestigious European groups of Nanomedice and regenerative Tissue engineering, with the funding of an ERG-Marie Curie Action grant (2008–2010).
[3][4] Her work has focused on understanding materials-cells interactions, and the design and applications of nanoparticles based on graphene oxide for cancer hyperthermia.
[2] In November 2010, she was awarded, with four other scientists (Isabel Lastres Becker, Ana Briones Alonso, Elena Ramírez Parra and María Antonia Herrero), the L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science, with an endowment of €15000 to reward the work, for women younger than 40 years, to support woman in science.
[6] In 2015, while keeping her appointment as professor at the University of Aveiro, she transferred to industry in 2015 as Scientific Director of Coating Technologies S.L.-CTECHnano,[7][8] She co-founded BioTech Foods in February 2017, being the CTO of the company.