She is a member of the Chilean Computer Science Society, the RITOS-2 (Red Iberoamericana de Tecnologias del Software para la Decada del 2000) working group of CYTED, and the project 506AC0287-COMPETISOFT of CYTED. She is the founder and president of the Chilean Workshop on Databases. In 2003, she obtained her PhD in computer science at the Castilla-La Mancha University, Spain. Dr. Urrutia has authored several original scientific papers on fuzzy databases and information systems and authored the book Fuzzy Databases: Modeling, Design and Implementation published by Idea Group Publishing (Hershey) in 2006.