Metallurgical Engineer with a doctorate in materials science and engineering from the University of Santiago de Chile, she did a post-doctorate at the University of California Davis in the US and then she returned to Chile at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, where she was a researcher, academic and Institutional Research Director. Subsequently, she developed the research area at the Adolfo Ibáñez University, where she was the first director of institutional research, a position she held for seven years. She is currently working as an academic and researcher at the same university and she is the director of the mechanical engineering program.