Professor of Arabic Language in the Department of Semitic Studies at Universidad de Granada, with more than 35 years of teaching experience at Universidad de Granada and Universidad de Sevilla.
She has participated in a dozen Research Projects from 1987 to the present, and currently she is a researcher at Unidad Asociada UGR-Escuela de Estduios Árabes (CSIC) “Patrimonio cultural árabe e islámico”, and at Unidad de Excelencia “Ciencias en la Alhambra” (UGR-Patronato de la Alhambra y el Generalife-Escuela de Estudios Árabes de Granada).
She is the author of more than 80 publications, within the Andalusian Agronomy and Botany research line. She has been a member of the Technical Commission of the Madinat al-Zahra Archaeological Complex, and a member of the Technical Commission of the Board of Trustees of the Alhambra and Generalife. Likewise, she is a member of the Editorial Committee of several scientific journals.