Aurora Baluja graduated in 2005 at the University of Santiago de Compostela, finishing the MIR residence in Anesthesiology and Critical Care in May 2010. Se obtained the Del Rio Hortega contract for research training, between January 2011 and January 2014, and the PhD in Forensic Sciences and Pathology in January of 2016. Currently works as an assistant faculty of Anesthesiology at the University Clinic Hospital of Santiago de Compostela. She is a current member of the Spanish National Network of Biostatistics (Biostatnet) and the Galician Society for the Promotion of Statistics and Operations Research (SGAPEIO).