Natàlia Garcia-Reyero Vinas received her BS in Biology from Universitat de Girona, and her MS and PhD from Universitat de Barcelona, in Barcelona, Spain. She is now a researcher at the US Army Engineer Research & Development Center Environmental Laboratory. Her research focuses on environmental pollutants and their effects on aquatic species while trying to elucidate their mechanisms of action using ecotoxicogenomics and a systems biology approach. She is also developing tools for predictive toxicology and is particularly interested in alternative non-animal methods. She also uses the latest biomolecular approaches and techniques for different purposes including genomics, transcriptomics, metagenomics, and paleogenomics projects.