[3] In 1987, she was nominated group leader at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and, in 1988, became professor at the Watson School of Biological Sciences.
[3] In 2004, she moved to Europe and became professor at the University of Lausanne[4] where, between 2005 and 2014, she was also director of the Centre for Integrative Genomics.
Between 2008 and 2014, Nouria Hernandez was also a member of the central committee of the Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences.
[5] As rector, one of her priorities will be to promote the theme of "viable development" (with the idea of survival in the long term of the next generations).
[6][7] She sees viable development as an interdisciplinary subject of reflection involving not only technology but also biology, ecology, philosophy, economy and politics.