I was born and raised in Madrid, Spain. I earned my bachelor's degree (2008) and master’s degree (2010) in theoretical physics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid. During my Ph.D. with the coatings group at the Spanish Research Council (CSIC), I specialized in determining the optical constants of materials and developing optical coatings for the far UV (FUV) and extreme UV (EUV). I successfully completed my Ph.D. in 2015. In 2016, I moved to Singapore, where I joined the Singapore Synchrotron Light Source as a beamline scientist. My work was focused on the EUV characterization of mask blanks for the next generation of photolithography tools. In my spare time, I explored the application of metamaterials in UV optics and indulged in my passion for soccer.
I later joined Tohoku University in Japan in 2018, where I combined seismic adventures and massive Sushi ingestion with research on gratings for X-ray interferometry. Afterwards, I joined the Catholic University of America in April 2019 through CRESST II as an assistant research scientist. Here I am nowadays supporting the coatings laboratory at GSFC. My research efforts are motivated to increase the reflectivity of FUV mirrors and the exploration of metamaterials in the FUV spectral range. I am a member of the GSFC Orange soccer team.