Betsy Verónica Arévalo Jaimes obtained a BSc in Microbiology (2015) and an MSc in Biological Sciences (2017) from Los Andes University, Colombia. After two years working as a laboratory analyst, she moved to Barcelona where she obtained an MSc in Translational Medicine (2019) thanks to the support of a Postgraduate Scholarship received from La Fundación Carolina. In 2020, she was selected as a Fellow of the InPhinit Incoming program by the "La Caixa" Foundation. Currently, she is a pre-doctoral researcher at the BIAT group of the IBEC studying biofilms.