She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from UPM in 1990 and in physical Chemistry from Complutense University of Madrid in 1994. SHe has a B.S. in Chemistry (1991) from the Complutense University of Madrid. She has been vicedean of the Computer Science degree at UC3M and, currently, she is head of the AI CAOS group (Grupo de Control, Aprendizaje y Optimización de Sistemas), based on machine learning and optimization. She has published over 110 journal and conference papers mainly in the field of machine learning.