Marta graduated in 2000 from the Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona in Spain, where she also completed her PhD on livestock traceability in 2006. Marta moved to Australia in 2005 working as a research manager for a company specialising in electronic identification of livestock. In 2006, Marta joined the University of Sydney as an Epidemiology research fellow working on traceability, biosecurity, disease surveillance and risk analysis. Marta started at the School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences at CSU in 2012, where she teaches epidemiology, public health and food safety to veterinary and animal science students. Since completing her PhD, Dr Hernández-Jover has published over 30 research articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals.