She earned her PhD in Law from the University of Salamanca with her doctoral dissertation titled The Defendant in Criminal Proceedings as the Object of Investigative and Evidentiary Acts, which received the highest distinction of Apto Cum Laude unanimously and was awarded the University's Extraordinary Doctoral Prize. She has participated in various research projects and numerous courses, conferences, and seminars at both national and international levels. Her notable publications include the monographs The Defendant in Criminal Proceedings as the Object of Evidence (1999) and The Incapacitation Process in Law 1/2000 of Civil Procedure: Procedural and Substantive Aspects (2002). She has also published articles in journals, such as "Some Aspects of Evidentiary Activity in Administrative Proceedings" (1999) and "Guarantees of Judicial Impartiality" (2010), as well as contributions to collective works on topics like judicial protection, gender violence mediation, and the presumption of innocence in cases involving particularly vulnerable victims. She is a member of the IUDICIUM: Group of Procedural Studies of the University of Salamanca, recognized as a Group of Excellence in Castilla y León. She is also a co-researcher in the RED IBERPROCESO, focused on contemporary procedural law in Ibero-America. From October 2004 to October 2013, she served as a Legal Advisor to the Constitutional Court. She collaborates as an external evaluator for the National Agency for Evaluation and Foresight and various scientific publications, including the Spanish Journal of Constitutional Law and international legal journals.