Ana is a Lecturer in Diagnostics of Infectious Diseases at the Department of Tropical Disease Biology, where she leads diagnostic test development and evaluation activities in the Centres for Drugs and Diagnostics Research and Tuberculosis Research at LSTM. Her lab focuses on the discovery of new biomarker targets for diagnostic applications, the development of novel diagnostic assays and the evaluation of diagnostics.  Ana's work focuses on point-of-care diagnostics that are accessible and affordable to implement in low-resource settings to improve diagnostics in communities in need. She has an interest in emerging and priority diseases that have the potential to cause epidemics and outbreaks, and tuberculosis. 

Ana holds a degree in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Murcia, Spain and a PhD in molecular epidemiology and diagnostics from Salford University, UK. Before joining LSTM, Ana worked as a Research Fellow at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, where she worked on molecular characterisation and the development of novel diagnostic methods for zoonotic viral and bacterial diseases.

Ana co-directs the Research Methods in Tropical Disease Biology module (TROP705).  She lectures across a variety of modules on diagnostics, infectious diseases and public health, including in LIFE340, TROP720 and DTMH modules. She has supervised more than 10 BSc, MSc and PhD students.