Dr. Gonzalez holds a PhD in Health Sciences and Biomedicine (Cum Laude, Complutense University of Madrid, 2016) with a thesis entitled “Multicenter Study of Drug-Induced Acute Interstitial Nephritis: Clinical Features and Impact of Steroid Therapy.” She obtained her MD in Medicine and Surgery from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1996.

Since 2001, she has been working as a Consultant in Nephrology at Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, with extensive experience in kidney transplantation (living and deceased donor), hemodialysis, inpatient care, and outpatient nephrology.

She is Associate Professor of Health Sciences at the Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University of Madrid (since 2020), has supervised nephrology residents (2013–2017), and directed multiple undergraduate theses and research projects in nephrology and kidney transplantation (2015–2024).

Her research output includes more than 140 peer-reviewed publications in high-impact journals such as American Journal of Transplantation, Transplant International, Kidney International, Clinical Kidney Journal, Journal of Medical Virology, and Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. Her main areas of investigation are infectious complications after kidney transplantation, cellular immunity monitoring, prediction models in non-diabetic kidney disease, and strategies for desensitization and optimization of graft survival.

Her expertise encompasses kidney transplantation, prevention and management of post-transplant infections, predictive models in kidney disease, medical education and training, and translational clinical research.