She completed a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Granada in 2008 and has been a visiting researcher at the University of Ulster (Belfast, UK), Technical University of Liberec (Liberec, Czech Republic) University of Trento (Trento, Italy), and Technical University of Berlin (Berlin, Germany). Her research activities have been mostly related to speech technologies. She has participated in numerous research projects, and is a member of several research associations focused on speech processing and human-computer interaction.