Irene received a B.S. in Chemistry in 2010 and an M.Sc. in 2012 from the University of Alicante after an internship at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. She earned her Ph.D. in 2014 from the University of Alicante under the supervision of Prof. Jose Carlos Gonzalez-Gomez and Prof. Francisco Foubelo thanks to a val+d predoctoral fellowship (Generalitat Valenciana). Her doctoral endevors dealt with synthetic applications of chiral homoallylic sulfinamines. After one year of postdoctoral studies at the same university, she moved to the University of Michigan (MI, US) as a Ramón Areces postdoctoral fellow to work in the lab of Prof. Corey R. J. Stephenson in the photocatalyzed/electrocatalyed degradation of lignin. In 2017, she moved to the Technische Universität München (TUM, Germany) to work in Prof. Thorsten Bach lab where she developed a catalytic electron donor-acceptor (EDA) complex to perform different organic transformations as an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow. Finally, in 2019, she was able to move back to her hometown University in Alicante, where she worked in the Electrochemistry Institute (European project LIBERATE) until she received a Juan de la Cierva fellowship the same year, allowing her to start her independent career at the Department of Organic Chemistry/Institute of Organic Synthesis. Since 2022 she is Assistant Professor at the University of Alicante and she is interested in the development of new cross-dehydrogenative coupling transformations using photo- and/or electrocatalytic systems.