[2] She then continued her doctoral studies and completed a thesis entitled La familia en el Egipto Antiguo (The Family in Ancient Egypt).
From 1992 to 1994 she worked at the Institute of Egyptology at the University of Tübingen, Germany,[2] and in January 1995 she received her doctorate in history at the University of Seville with the thesis Representaciones de niños en las tumbas privadas de Tebas durante la XVIII dinastía en Egipto (Representations of Children in the Private Tombs of Thebes During the 18th Dynasty in Egypt).
In Egypt she has done extensive work over more than twenty years, including one of her first excavations there in 1996 at the site of Sharuna, with Dr. Farouk Gomaa of the University of Tübingen.
In 2001, together with Mourad el-Amouri, she organized an archaeological survey in the Red Sea in the area between Wadi Gawasis and Marsa Alam.
She also worked as a coordinator on "120 Años de Arqueología Española en Egipto" (120 Years of Spanish Archaeology in Egypt), an exhibition that opened at the Egyptian Museum in April 2009.
She is also a professor at the University of Murcia's Near East and Late Antiquity Study Center [es] (CEPOAT), where she teaches master classes.