She got her Psychology Degree at Universidad de La Laguna (Canary Islands, Spain). Gloria completed her dissertation, awarded with the European PhD (Doctor Europaea), in 2006 at University of Valencia (Spain) in the Work and Organizational Psychology Interuniversity Doctoral Program. In 2007, she moved to Virginia (USA) to do research as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at George Mason University for two years. Gloria was a postdoctoral researcher at University of Delaware for a year before starting at University of Guelph on May 2010.