She completed a PhD in Biology from the University of Valencia, Spain in 2010, which focused on the characterisation of circadian clock genes in insects. In October 2010, Teresa joined the Mycobacterial Research Unit at the National Institute for Medical Research in London, to work as a postdoctoral researcher with Professor Douglas Young on the development of sequence-based transcriptomics in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of human tuberculosis. In 2015, Teresa established her own research group at the Department of Pathogen Molecular Biology at LSHTM after being awarded an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council. Her group id investigating the role of translational regulation in the adaptive response on M. tuberculosis, and its contribution to differential susceptibility to drugs that target ribosomal activities.