M.Sc. degree in Physics in 1995 from the Universidad de Valencia, and the Ph.D. in Telecommunications Engineering in 1999 from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia,respectively.

She joined the Departamento de Comunicaciones at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia in 1996, where she was engaged to the Optical Communications Group and her research was mainly done in the field of fibre gratings. From 1997 to 1998, she joined the Optoelectronics Research Centre, at the University of Southampton (United Kingdom), where she was involved in several projects developing new add-drop filters or twin-core fibre-based filters. She has published more than 170 papers and conference contributions in fibre Bragg gratings, microwave photonics and optical networks. She has participated in the European Networks of Excellence IST-NEFERTITI, IST-EPIXNET, and IST-EPHOTON/ONE and she has also been involved in several EU funded projects such as IST-LABELS, IST-GLAMOROUS, IST-OFFSOHO and IST-ALPHA project. Currently she is leading the NEWTON national project, where her main research is focused on advanced modulation techniques in optical systems. She has been an associate professor from 1999 in optical communications, systems and networks and since 2009, she is Full Professor at the Telecommunications Engineering Faculty in the Universitat Politécnica de Valencia.

Optical Wireless Systems