Graduate in Political Science and Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), with a diploma in Data Analysis for the Social Sciences from the University of Essex in England, and PhD in Political Science from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. 

Since 2003 she has been a lecturer in Political Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). She has also taught at the universities of Salamanca and Murcia. 

Her areas of research revolve around political participation, political attitudes and electoral behaviour. She has published ¿Individuos o sistemas?: las razones de la abstención en Europa Occidental (CIS, 1999) and has collaborated in Metodología de la ciencia política (CIS, 1999), Comportamiento político y electoral (Ariel, 2004) and Informe sobre la democracia en España 2015. Reformular la política (Los Libros de la Catarata, 2015).