I grew up in Cobeña, a town about 25 minutes away from Madrid, Spain with my parents, my older brother and twin sister (on the first picture). I went to school in Colegio Norfolk until 10th grade and then graduated from high school from IES Antonio Machado in Alcalá de Henares.
I grew up playing different sports, but my main passion was basketball, which earned me a scholarship to West Virginia University Institute of Technology, where I got a BS in Mathematics in 2021. West Virginia will always hold a special place in my heart because its people welcomed me since day one and made it very easy for me to adapt to a new culture (and definitely because of its scenery!) It also gave me a —unusual for a Spanish girl— love for country music and fostered my love for the outdoors.
On the court my team was able to achieve unprecedented success for our program, winning four conference championships, making it to nationals for three straight years, and getting the first national win in the program's history. It didn't come without an incredible amount of constant work and overcoming difficulties, including playing a whole season during the pandemic with testing, quarantines, and no fans in the stands. But it also allowed me to travel all around the US and learn from a big diversity of people.
I moved to Pittsburgh in 2021 to pursue a PhD at the University of Pittsburgh where I work with my advisor Dr. Catalin Trenchea. I have had the privilege of working on numerical methods for the Navier-Stokes equations and time-dependent PDEs. Mathematics has continued to take me to different parts of the country and connect me with people from all different backgrounds. I love the city of Pittsburgh, especially the museums, the public parks, all the city steps, and the good food. And I still try to play basketball whenever I can!
In 2023, I interned at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab under the supervision of Dr. Ann Almgren and Dr. John Bell, working on adaptive mesh refinement techniques. Being embedded in an institution where mathematicians work alongside physicists, engineers, and computer scientists gave me a different perspective on what mathematics can do — and an excuse to spend a summer in California. In the Summer of 2026, I will be interning at MathWorks in Boston.
