Cristina Rodríguez-Díaz graduated in Veterinary Medicine from the University of León in 2008. In 2009, she obtained a Master's degree in Food Biotechnology from the University of Oviedo. In 2010, she obtained a complementary Master's degree in Specialized Veterinary Medicine at the University of Liège. In October 2010, she started her doctoral studies at the same university, which she finished in July 2016, obtaining the title of European Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine. She has published 18 scientific publications as a first author, most of them in international journals in her discipline. She has participated in the writing and development of eight different research projects with competitive funding at the autonomous or state level. She has presented numerous scientific communications at national and international congresses and twice won the Best Poster award at the IAFP European Congress. She has been a teaching assistant and researcher at the University of Liège (2014–2016). With research experience of more than seven years abroad (six years as a predoctoral fellow and 18 months as a postdoctoral fellow), she currently enjoys a postdoctoral fellowship (Université de Liège (BE)–IBIMA FIMABIS (ES) awarded within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions FP7 CoFund program).