Maria Rambla-Alegre graduated with a degree in chemical sciences (specialization in analytical chemistry) at University Jaume I (Castellon, Spain). Afterwards, she also earned her PhD in sciences at this university, working on the determination of antibiotics using micellar liquid chromatography in physiological samples and food. Following her doctorate, she completed a one-year post-doctoral position at Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium), after which she began working for three years as a research scientist at the Research Institute for Chromatography (RIC, Kortrijk, Belgium). Since July of 2015, she joined IRTA as a researcher, and is in charge of the Analytical Chemistry Laboratory, which is aimed for the determination of marine biotoxins with different analytical techniques, mainly chromatographic, including mass spectrometry detection.