I was born in a small town in the North of Barcelona (Catalonia). When I was little I wanted to understand how things work and I ended up studying Physics to very soon learn that only spherical cows in vacuum can be completely explained. Later during my PhD work at ALBA Light Source (2004 to 2008), I became interested in X-ray Imaging and Microscopy while working on the nanofabrication of Diffractive X-ray Optics. I am also an expert user of Electron Beam Lithography to produce the nanometer sized structures that are required to diffractively bend and focus the X-ray beams. 

After my PhD, I spent also three years in Switzerland (cows, cheese, chocolate, mountains, snow…) while working at the Paul Scherrer Institut (2008 to 2010) and two years living near Chicago (USA) and working at the Advanced Photon Source of Argonne National Laboratory (2010 to 2012). After that, I lived in two years in Oxford (England, UK) and I worked at I13 - X-ray Imaging and Coherence beamline of the Diamond Light Source  (2013 to 2015). In 2015, I moved again to Switzerland and I worked  five years at the ETH Zürich (Switzerland) and the TOMCAT beamline group developing X-ray phase contrast grating interferometry (2015 to 2020).

Since Autumn 2020, I am research scientist at the X-ray Nano-Optics at the Laboratory for X-ray Nanoscience and Technologies at the Paul Scherrer Institut (Switzerland).