Marine Biology, Magister Science of the National University of Colombia and P.hD. in Biology of the University of Vigo (Spain), for which she realizes the study on the effects of the environmental conditions on the mortality of eggs and larvae of the sardine (Sardine pilchardus W.). This Doctorate was sponsored by a scholarship from Spain Foreign Office. She has participation at the early life commercial fish plans. She was postdoctoral researcher of IRMA - CNR of Mazara del Vallo (TP, Italy), IIM-CSIC (Vigo, Spain) and UEA, Unneversity of East Anglia (UK). At this moment, she is working as Lecturer of Universidad del Atlántico, Barranquilla Colombia.