She holds an M.S. in Epidemiology and a Dr.P.H. in Nutritional Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health, in addition to an MPH from the National School of Public Health and an MD from the University of Alcala de Henares, both in Madrid, Spain. She would like to be an eternal student, but sees being a professor as the next best thing. As a nutritional epidemiologist, the focus of her work is on adult obesity and cardiometabolic risk, but she sees childhood obesity research as a natural extension.