Clinical Head of the Neurosurgery Service at the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital (HUVH) and Associate Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where she teaches undergraduate Medicine and doctoral subjects. Her clinical fields of interest are the pathology of the craniocervical joint - which includes the Chiari malformation -, Pediatric Neurosurgery (PCN), alterations in CSF dynamics, craniocerebral trauma and neural tube defects. Coordinator of the Neurotraumatology and Neurosurgery Research Unit, integrated within the Vall d'Hebron Research Institute, and responsible for the lines of research on hydrocephalus and congenital malformations of the craniocervical hinge. Coordinator of the Pediatric Neurosurgery Unit (NCP) of the HUVH since 2008, which has been designated as CSUR of Complex NCP by the Ministerio de Sanidad, Servicios Sociales e Igualdad since 2013. Accredited tutor of Neurosurgery residents from 1996 to 2019. She has 150 articles indexed in Pubmed and 15 in non-indexed journals, with a total number of registered citations of 4,582. She has participated in 35 projects funded in competitive calls, in 11 of which she acts as principal investigator (PI). She has participated in the editing of 3 books and has written more than 40 book chapters (more than 15 in international books). The number of presentations and communications at national and international conferences exceeds 600.