Graduated in Psychology at the University of Salamanca, she earned her PhD in Social Psychology (European Doctorate Degree) from the National University for Distance Education (UNED) in Madrid.
She is full-time senior researcher at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) in Barcelona, where she leads the Gender and ICT (GENTIC) research group. The research group has been acknowledged as Consolidated Research Group by the Generalitat of Catalonia. Ref. 2021 SGR 01032.
Her research interests are related to family and school influences on study choices; gender stereotypes about ability self-concepts, achievement and task-choices; gendered construction of careers of occupations; and secondary school teachers’ and students’ attitudes towards technology and technological subjects.
In 2007 her doctoral work was awarded with the First Prize INJUVE for Doctoral Dissertations by the former Ministry of Health, Equality, and Social Issues. She has been a pre-doctoral research fellow at Stanford University (California, United States) and the Technical University in Berlin (Germany), as well as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Social Research of the University of Michigan (Michigan, United States) and the Department of Education Foundations of the University of South Africa. She has been granted by different competitive public sources (José Castillejo Spanish Ministry of Education and BE Grant by the Generalitat of Catalonia) to conduct her research in some of these international institutions