I have a Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy and a Master’s degree in Microbiology Research from the University of Granada, Spain, where I also completed my Ph.D. in Nutrition and Food Science. I focused on the study of the gut microbial ecosystem and on the functional adaptation to changes produced by environmental forces. I explored functional communities and microbial metabolic links to obesity. After my Ph.D., I was awarded an independent post-doctoral fellowship from the prestigious Foundation Ramón Areces in Spain in Professor’s Debby Bogaert laboratory (at the University of Edinburgh). My post-doctoral project focused on the infant respiratory mycobiome during the first years of life and the environmental factors which determine its composition, functionality, and interaction with the human respiratory microbiome. Then, I was hired by Debby Bogaert's group to continue investigating the pathophysiology of respiratory tract infections from a microbiome perspective and especially focus on COVID patients. Recently, I came back to my home university with a fellowship from the Next Generation scheme to work at the Department of Microbiology and study the role of the gut microbiome in the relationship between obesity and exposure to xenobiotics.