Full Professor at the Complutense University in Madrid, in criminal and civil procedure, and arbitration since 1996. In this capacity, she also teaches in the summer law school of Saint Louis University since 2004. She has written extensively in the area of her expertise, being the author or editor of 15 books and more than 150 scientific articles on fair trial rights, justice systems and procedure published in more than seven languages. Among the most recent ones there is the book on the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (2018), or the book on “Lawyer-client confidentiality in criminal proceedings” (2020). At present she is leading, among others, the international project on Admissibility of E-evidence of the European Law Institute. She is regular speaker in international conferences. She is a member of the most relevant international academic associations, as AIDP and the IACL, and member of the editorial board of numerous law reviews. She has been visiting professor or researcher in foreign institutes and universities as, for example, the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) or the Universities of Berkeley, Harvard and Stanford (USA). Her present research is focused on comparative criminal procedure, rule of law and judicial independence, human rights and procedure, and the EU process of legal harmonization. She also works regularly as an international legal expert for the Council of Europe and other international organizations in legal reforms in Eastern European countries and also in Central Asia and was appointed chair of the special committee on Transnational Organized Crime of the Council of Europe in 2013-2014.