[4] She worked at UPC as a lecturer in computer architecture from 1989 to 1997, and then as an associate professor from 1997 to 2008.
[3] Badia's early work concerned electronic design automation.
[2] In 2005 she became manager of the workflows and distributed computing group in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, the successor project to CEPBA.
[5] Also in 2019, the Generalitat de Catalunya gave her their DonaTIC prize in the academic/researcher category, recognizing the achievements of women in STEM in Catalonia.
[6] She won the HPDC Achievement Award for 2021 at the ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC '21), "for her innovations in parallel task-based programming models, workflow applications and systems, and leadership in the high performance computing research community".