Associate professor in the Department of Prehistory at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in Spain. She has a PhD in Prehistoric Archaeology (UAB) and History, Art, and Archaeology (University of Liège). She is a member of the Grampo–Sappo team in the Department of Prehistory at the UAB through which she has participated in and directed archaeological research projects in the north-eastern Iberian Peninsula, Syria (from 2000), and Iraqi Kurdistan (from 2014) focusing on the study of Neolitisation processes.