She is an international scholar in the field of archaeobotany, specialising in the analysis of a wide range of plant macroremains, including wood, charcoal, non-woody plants such as seeds and underground storage organs, as well as food remains and animal dung.

Her main areas of research focus on Palaeolithic hunter-gatherer and Neolithic farming plant-based subsistence, plant management practices and domestication, landscape reconstruction and human–environment interactions, and the archaeology of food, cooking traditions and consumption habits.

She has a background in ethnobotany and experimental archaeology in Europe and Southwest Asia, and is an active member of the Aranzadi Science Society.