PhD in Sociology (UB, 2002). Degree in Geography and History, specializing in cultural anthropology (UB, 1989). She received a Postdoctoral Fulbright Fellowship (2004-2005) for Boston University and for Harvard University (2006 and 2008). Professor at the URV since 2009. She has been the coordinator of the EU project Horizon 2020: SoCaTel. A multi-stakeholder co-creation platform for better access to long-term care services (2017-21), in which the SoCaTel platform for carrying out digital co-creation of long-term care services has been developed from a humanistic-centric approach. Two twinning projects from DigitalHelathEurope, 2020 in Italy (Veneto) and In-4-AHA (EIP on AHA), 2022 in the Czech Republic (Ústí nad Labem) on the adoption of the SoCaTel platform have also been developed. She has also participated in other European funded projects on long-term care: the COST Action social services, welfare states and places (2011-15) and COST Action Ageism a multi-national, interdisciplinary perspective (2014-18). She is currently the coordinator of MyRobot project: Human-Robot Interaction with older adults suffering from dementia: Sociocultural and gender differences and ethical and professional implications in the use of companion robots. Recent publication: “Ethical implications in using robots among older adults living with dementia”, published in Frontiers in Psychiatry, section Aging Psychiatry (2024) https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1436273 .Guest Editor of the Special Issue of the Journal of Social Service Research (2016) about de-institutionalization in ageing and the effects of economic crisis since 2008. She was the coordinator of the Master Degree on Medical Anthropology and Global Health (2016-2018) and currently she is the coordinator of the PhD program on Social work at URV (2024-). She is  also collaborator at the Finnish Centre of Excellence AgeCare, University of Jyväskylä, where she is involved in the use of technology and robotics for care, and the European Research Network of Gerontological Social Work, from EASWR.  Coordinator of the WG on “Housing and Living Conditions of Ageing population” at ENHR a. She is also an associate member of Boston University’s Institute for the Advancement of the Social Sciences. She was member of the board of the Catalan Sociological Association (2020-23) and currently is member of the board of the Catalan Geriatrics and Gerontology Association (2022-). She is also a member of the Medical Anthropology Research Center (MARC) and  of the UNESCO Housing Chair bot at her University (URV). She has been a member of the URV Ethics Committee for Research into People, Society and the Environment (CEIPSA) since 2024.