Rosita obtained her PhD at PUC (2016) and she is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering at the School of Engineering at PUC. She has three ISI papers published to the date. Her PhD thesis addressed the seismic performance of reinforced concrete buildings after the 2010 Chile earthquake. She received her MSc degree with a thesis titled “Three-dimensional behavior of a spherical self-centering precast prestressed pile isolator”.