PhD in Science and Bachelor Degree in Biochemistry at the University of Chile. Academic at the Boston Biomedical Research Institute, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School (1977-1986) and currently she is academic at the Faculty/Department of Medicine of the Universidad de Chile. She was awarded with the National Science Award by the Chilean Goverment in 2006, for her international experience in the field of regulation of intracellular calcium, becoming the first woman to receive this recognition.