 Her research has been devoted to study the effect of warming in the Arctic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean.In her role as a researcher for the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) where she worked from 1992, she led the first Spanish oceanographic expedition to the Arctic in 2007 and led the Arctic Tipping Points project on the effects of climate change.From 2011 to 2015, she was a professorial fellow at the Oceans Institute of the University of Western Australia and since 2015 has been Professor of Marine Science at the BESE, Red Sea Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia.