Her research specialties include animal physiology, environmental physiology, and organismal biology. Jimenez is primarily interested in the functional linkages between whole animal metabolic rate and the underlying mechanisms that influence its magnitude and direction. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Comparative Physiology, the Journal of Thermal Biology, Nature Communications and Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. Science Magazine recently featured Jimenez’s work related to the aging disparity between small and large dogs.