Professor of Physics at the Physics Institute of the Engineering School, Universidad de la República, Uruguay. Dipl.-Phys. (1992) from the TU-Berlin and a PhD in physics (1998) from the Wolfgang Goethe-University, Germany.

Frins is laureate of the National UNESCO – L’OREAL Award for Women in Science in 2012. Past-President of the Uruguayan Physics Society (2007-2011). She leads a research group in pure and applied optics. Her research is focused on developing optical methods for atmospheric remote sensing. She joined the Aerosol Robotic Network - AERONET, NASA, Project in 2019