Dr. Ponce de León is currently a researcher at the Institute of Marine Science, Barcelona, Spain. She was Assistant Researcher at CENTEC (University of Lisbon) from 2019-2025. Her field of expertise is the upper ocean dynamics. She was the PI of the ESA's WAPOSAL (Wave Power & Satellite Altimetry) project. She is also partner of other international projects. She collaborated in competitive European research projects on extreme waves (ERC MULTIWAVE-Rogue Waves).