Director of the UNAB Center for Systems Biotechnology, biochemist from the University of Chile, and PhD in Biological Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She was general manager of BioSigma, where she received the 2015 Avonni National Innovation Award in the Mining and Metallurgy category for industrializing and commercializing the process of bioleaching or dissolving copper with bacteria in minerals that cannot be mined using conventional methods.