Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Public Finance, Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Spain. She has a BA in Economics and Business Administration, an MA in Economics of Education and Labour Economics and a PhD in Economics with a dissertation thesis in university funding. She held positions of Vice-Rector for Innovation at UAM and Associate Researcher, Institute for Fiscal Studies, Spanish Ministry of Finance. She has been a member of the Association of Economics of Education (AEDE) since its inception and held the position of President from 2012 to 2014.