In 2015, Mariona Torrens-Fontanals obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Biology by Universitat de Barcelona as the highest-ranked student of the graduating class. She then pursued a two-year-long Master in Bioinformatics for Health Sciences by Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, 2015 - 2017). During this period, she worked as a research fellow at the Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques (IMIM), focusing on the development of web applications for the visualization and analysis of molecular structures and dynamics. She is currently pursuing her PhD at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, centered on molecular dynamics studies of the neurotransmitter-receptor interaction process through distributed computing. She also performed a research stay in the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York, 01/04/2019 - 01/06/2019) with the aim to apply metadynamic techniques for the understanding of the binding of antipsychotic drugs to several aminergic G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs).