After earning her degree in Chemistry, she began her professional career as a high school teacher in Girona city (1975-1976). After earning her degree in Pharmacy, she moved to the University of Michigan to begin her Ph.D. under a research contract (1981–1982). Back in Barcelona, she worked on an industrial research project contract at UAB on environmental industrial waste treatment (1984–1985). Pharmacist at the Hospital “La Salud” Sabadell City since 1985). Pharmacist at the Sabadell City Council Laboratory (1986-1989). Director and Pharmacist at the Sabadell City Council Laboratory (1989-1991). In 1991, she earned a CSIC Tenured Scientist position at ICMAB and was promoted to Scientific Researcher in 2002. In 2006, she was promoted to Full Professor, where she remains active nowadays. Prof. Viñas scientific interests and her main achievements have/are built based on her chemical and pharmaceutical training. She has been involved in new synthetic approaches of boron compounds to be applied to new materials taking benefit of their self-assembly for energy (catalysts), environment (wastewater treatment), sensors/biosensors, and medicine (antibiotics, antifungal, antineoplastic; visualization by Raman-microscopy and radio imaging in collaboration with experts who own the equipment. In most of these areas, she pioneered the research. Prof. Viñas was elected academician at the Chemical Section of the Academia Europaea (nº 5772) in 2021, being one of the only two Spanish females.