Dr. González is a tenured scientist at the CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) in Barcelona, Spain. She got her PhD at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and continued her training at Stanford University (US). Dr. González research aims at understanding how organisms adapt to the environment. Towards this end, her lab combines omic approaches with detailed molecular and functional analyses to identify and characterize adaptive mutations, and in particular those induced by transposable element insertions (gonzalezlab.eu). Dr. González is a co-founder of the European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (droseu.net) that brings together 73 labs from 28 European countries and beyond. She is also committed to increase public awareness of science. She is co-leading a citizen science project (melanogaster.eu) and a COST action on increasing evolutionary literacy in Europe (euroscitizen.eu). She is an ESEB (eseb.org) council member and a SMBE (smbe.org) council member.