Previously, she was a Ramón y Cajal Fellow at UAM, an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, and an EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge. She completed her Ph.D. in 2002 at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. Her current research interests concern the fields of degenerate gases of atoms and solid-state polaritons. She has worked on aspects of collective phenomena in strongly correlated systems, macroscopic phase coherence, and superfluidity in and out of equilibrium.