Vanessa holds a degree in Business Administration and Management from the Open University of Catalonia and is the project manager of REAL. Prior to this role, she supported other European-Research-Council-funded projects, and she worked for more than 15 years in different UAB research centers, managing financial resources, as well as the justification for national and international projects. She is now expanding this role to more general project coordination and management responsibilities, human resources coordination, as well as management of economic resources.