Rosana’s research focuses on understanding DNA packaging insides cells, DNA structure, epigenetic phenomena, and the relationship between the structure of the genome and gene expression regulation. She received her undergraduate degree in Chemistry from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and an MSc and DPhil in Theoretical Chemistry from the University of Oxford. She then did postdoctoral work with Tamar Schlick (NYU), Modesto Orozco (IRB Barcelona), Daan Frenkel (Cambridge), and David Wales (Cambridge).