She is a associate professor of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Alicante (1988) and a member of the Natural Language Processing and Information Systems Research Group of the same university (2005). She received her Nursing graduate and PhD in Computer Science at the University of Alicante, and her Master's degree in Information Science at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). Her main teaching area focuses on health information systems and health informatics. Her main field of interest is Medical Informatics Applications and Natural Language Processing (NLP) and in particular Information Extraction and Ontology Development. She has been collaborating with international researchers, coordinated and has participated in a number of projects at a national level. ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3484-5621