Quintanar Vera was a Fulbright scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology working with Jonathan King between 2014 and 2015.[1][6] Her project looked at the role of copper ions in human Gamma-D crystallin.[6] Quintanar Vera was appointed to the Society International Biological Inorganic Chemistry in 2017.[1] In 2017 she coordinated the Thematic Network of Structure, Function and Evolution of Proteins (REFEP).[7]