Vanessa is graduated in Business Administration and Management from the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) and is currently the Project Manager of the European Research Council funded project URBAG. Prior to this role, for over a year she has been supporting two ERC projects and she worked for more than 10 years in different UAB researchers centers, executing the economic resources as well as the financial justification for national and international projects. She is now expanding this role to more general project coordination and management responsibilities, human resources coordination as well as management of economic resources.