Biologist with a Doctorate in Sciences (Physiology) from the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH). She perform as Rector of Cayetano Heredia between May 2008 and June 2017, for two periods, and as Vice-Rector for Research of the same university between April of 2004 and April 2008. It has a scientific production of more than 170 published articles. She has carried out international projects with the University of Oxford and the University of Paris XIII. She works in various boards of directors, public and private, national and foreign, among which her participation in the Board of Directors of the National Council of Education (CNE), SUNEDU and the Peruvian Strategic Planning Center (CEPLAN) stands out, as well as in the General Assembly of Transparency. From 2008 to the present, she is also a member of the Strategic Orientation Council of the Research Institute for Development (IRD) of France, and between 2005 and 2009 she was a member of the advisory committee of the Ibero-American Science and Technology Program (CYTED) based in Spain. Currently, she is President of the National Council for Science, Technology and Technological Innovation (Concytec) since July 2017 to date.