I studied Biology at the University of Valencia and completed a Master’s degree in animal Biodiversity: Conservation and Evolution. My final Master´s project was conducted at the Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA) and was focused on the population dynamics of two potential European insect vectors of the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa. Afterwards, I was awarded an EPRIEX grant and continued my work at the same research institute where I had been employed for a year. I was part of the Department of Plant Protection, specifically within the Entomology Group. My research focused on larval and pupal parasitoids of the Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata), as well as on Philaenus spumarius and Neophilaenus campestris, two potential vectors of Xylella fastidiosa.