DVM, PhD, Dip.ECSRHM, graduated from the Veterinary Faculty of Zaragoza, Spain in 1995. After graduation, she began to work with sheep, a career that she has followed with dedication until today. Initially, she  worked  as  a  veterinarian  in  a  large meet-production  flock (3000 sheep). Later (1997-2010), she worked for a ‘Sheep and Goat Breeder Healthy Group’ in North Spain, which included 25,000 sheep and 2,000 goats in 35 farms. She has also worked  for the Spanish Government, in offitial campaigns against  brucellosis, hydatidosis, scrapie and bluetongue, and she has acted as an official qualification judge for the Spanish Rasa Aragonesa sheep breeders association.

She was awarded the PhD degree (cum laude) in 2006,  for a thesis studying association of ovine pneumonia with environmental conditions. She has worked as a private consultant in respiratory diseases for a veterinary company (GTV S.L.) which worked approximately with around 200,000 sheep.

In September 2005, she took up a place as part-time Assistant  Lecturer  in  the Veterinary  Faculty of  Zaragoza, later (2010) becoming Lecturer in Pathology, working  specifically with small  ruminants. She became a Diplomate of the European College of Small Ruminants Health Management in 2010. She has published two books and >30 articles in peer-reviewed journals (within the impact factor system).

She also has >60 publications in other journals; and >80 presentations in proceedings of national or international scientific meetings. She has been involved in more than 10 research projects and currently, she supervises three doctoral and one postgraduate students in projects related to diseases of sheep, specifically chronic proliferative rhinitis associated with Salmonella enterica subsp. diarizonae and jaw osteomielitis.

She is the director of the Small Ruminant Veterinary Service in the Veterinary Faculty of Zaragoza (SCRUM), that is a reference centre for sheep pathology in Spain. There she works in collaboration with 8 teachers, the ECSRHM resident, Teresa Navarro, and 15 interns from their 4th anf 5th year in Veterinary degree.

She is involved in the board of the Spanish Small Ruminant Society (SEOC) and in the board of the ECSRHM.