She earned her Ph.D. in Psychology and Master in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience from the University of Granada, Spain. During her postdoctoral research at University of Lausanne she worked with Immersive Virtual Reality as an ecological approach to study gender-emotions stereotypes during social interactions.As the recipient of several awards including the Early career publication and Canadas received a governmental grant to work at Mcmaster University (Canada), York University (Canada), and Blaise Pascal (France) during her Ph.D. program.