Ana did her BSc in Physics with Astrophysics and the PhD in high energy astrophysics (University of Leeds, UK), in numerical modelling of ultrarelativistic particle jet emissions in active galaxies. She later made a transition to an arguably more practical and en vogue field of bioinformatics, by joining the Computational Genomics group in the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, where she worked in both plant genomics (the assembly of pine gene regions) and on the PanCancer project, managing the large amounts of patient data and running the analysis pipeline to identify the potentially cancerous somatic variations in the patient samples. Afterwards, she joined the bioinformatic unit at CRAG, the centre for agricultural genomics, where she provided bioinformatic support to the Centre’s labs. She is currently a bioinformatician at the Novoa Lab at the CRG, looking for the RNA modifications. She works on the analysis of the Oxford Nanopore data from diverse projects and organisms and on automatising various analysis pipelines.

She is a huge film and music buff (has not missed Primavera Sound in over a decade), enjoys hiking, reading, cooking, but most of all loves dancing and all things Brazilian, which is why most of her spare time is spent in a Brazilian partner dance company and in dance festivals.