Born on 27 December 1975.

M.A. in Economics and Professor of Foundations of Economic Analysis, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid (UC3M). Ph.D. in Economics from the European University Institute (Florence). 

Currently:

• Member, Economic Advisory Group, DG-COMP, European Commission (since 2013).
• Member, European Economic Association Council (since 2024).
• Member, Advisory Council for Economic Affairs, Ministry of the Economy, Trade, and Enterprise (since 2020).
• Professor of Foundations of Economic Analysis, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid (since 2018; currently on leave of absence).
• Professor of Economics, Centro de Estudios Monetarios-Financieros (CEMFi) (since June 2025).
• Director, EnergyEcoLab research group (since 2018).
• Research Fellow, CESifo International Research Network, Munich (since 2023).
• Associate Member, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse (since 2018).
• Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London (since 2013).
• Head, SH1 Consolidator Panel, European Research Council (since 2023).
• Member, Scientific Council, Bruegel (since 2023).

Formerly:

• Independent Director of Enagas, S.A. (2021-2025).
• Independent director of MIBGAS, S.A. (Mercado Ibérico del Gas) (2019-2021).
• President, Spanish Economic Association (2023-2024).
• President, European Economic Association for Research in Industrial Economics ( 2022-2024).
• Member, Forum for a Just and Inclusive Energy Transition, Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (2020-2022).
• Member, Advisory Council for Ecological Transition (CAPTE) (2017-2018).

Other details of interest:

• Author of more than thirty publications in scientific journals in the energy field and numerous articles, book chapters, and publications on the electricity and gas sector in the European Union and Spain, energy transition, and sustainability.
• She is a participant in, for instance, the following research projects:
  • European Research Council: ENERGY IN TRANSITION – Socio-Economic Challenges and Opportunities of the Energy Transition (Advanced Excellence Grant) (2025-2030). Proposed appointment of an independent director.
  • European Research Council: ELECTRIC CHALLENGES – Current Tools and Policy Challenges in Electricity Markets (Consolidator Excellence Grant) (2018-2024).
  • Bank of Spain: Energy transition: an analysis of economic policy design and impact (2020-2027).
• She regularly conducts seminars and delivers lectures for universities (e.g., at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, European University Institute in Florence, etc.) and business (e.g., EARIE, AEE, European Economic Association conferences), etc.
• She also regularly teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at several universities (UC3M, CEMFi, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, etc.) and in the energy economics, competition policy, and regulatory sectors.
• She has worked at a number of international research centers: Northwestern University (Chicago), London School of Economics, Oxford University, Cambridge University, Université de Toulouse, etc.
• In 2014 she received the Sabadell Herrero Award (best Spanish economist under 40) and the Julián Marías Award, Madrid Regional Government (best researcher in the Social Sciences under 40 in the Autonomous Community of Madrid); in 2018 the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics Award; and in 2023 the MIBEL Award for her article, Market Power and Price Exposure: Learning from Changes in Renewables Regulation, MIBEL Board of Regulators.