With a PhD degree from the University of Almería (Spain) and with an extraordinary doctorate award, is a researcher at the Plataforma Solar de Almería (PSA), a dependency of the Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), the largest concentrating solar technology research, development and test center in Europe. Her research activity is mainly focused in modeling, optimization and control applications of solar desalination and concentrating solar systems. She has been involved in 14 national and international R+D projects, co-authored 28 papers in SCI journals and contributed to more than 20 international conferences.