She is currently working as a professor in the School of Education of the Complutense University of Madrid. She holds a PH.D. in Psychology of Education of the Complutense University and a Master's Degree in Educational Systems Development from the Michigan State University, and a B.A. in Education from the Complutense University.

When she completed her B.A. she worked as a training consultant for Andersen Consulting. In 1987 she was granted a Fullbright Scholarship to pursue her education in the United States where she completed her Master's Degree. She specialized in educational information technology.

Upon her return to Spain she worked for a Labor Union in Madrid, as a teacher of educational computing for in-service training programs and in the Down Syndrome Foundation as an advisor and classroom teacher in a program for people with learning disabilities. She has also taught the subject of new technologies in special education in the Pontificial University of Madrid.

Her main publications have been in Conference books and specialized magazines, on the subject of new technologies in special education. Her dissertation is on working with mentally gifted children and it will be published shortly by the Complutense University. She has also publised a book with CCS "Education intelligent children".

In 2003 she received a scholarship to work on reading and writing with a team of researchers from Harvard University. This is an on-going project. She is a member of the R&D team sponsored by the Complutense University working on the diagnosis of dislexia. The team includes educators, psychologists and neurologists and it will work for three years.

She has been a speaker, lecturing on reading and writing in the European Conference on Special Needs and Information Technology and in the International Conference on Learning and Brain Research, organized by the OECD and the 4th International Conference on Psychology and Education of the University of Almeria. She was a featured speaker in WAECE's 2nd World Conference on Raeading and Writing in Madrid, 2004