University of Barcelona
Ruiz-Lapuente completed her degree in Physics at the University of Barcelona, then did her doctoral studies at the University of Barcelona, the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, and the European Southern Observatory. She then went on to become a research fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. As of 2012, she was a professor with the Department of Astronomy and Meteorology at the University of Barcelona.